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It reminds me of 1932 Berlin.

Yes, it reminds me as well. Particularly as I just recently finished reading 'Defying Hitler' a memoir by Sebastion Haffner who tells not the gory details of a holocaust; but rather as it is explained in prologue that the author

'takes you from day to day, through early 1933 [for us to see] how easy it was for Hitler, beginning in such small ways, to turn a civilized, intelligent people into a helpless, penned-in-flock of sheep."

Sad, how much changes; and how little.

To add to my 'pleasure'; am now reading Anna Politkosvskaya's 'A Russian Diary'. She is the Russian journalist - and because of her exacting honesty, a Putin enemy - who was murdered in the stairwell of her apartment as she was returning home from work on what was to be, her last day.

Politkosvskaya is incredibly courageous in her writing; and surely she must have recognized her own 'handwriting on the wall' taking the risks that she did, exposing the ugly truth of Putin; his friends; and the painful truth of Putin's enemies; who are sooner or later, rendered, 'former enemies'. (the latest most likely, just last week. . .the Russian ex-pat billionaire and enemy of Putin, living in London in a secured home/'fortress'. . .who feared for his life; and now 'fears no more'.)

Bottom line, the evil is recognizable and familiar; and we should not for a moment; assume our friendship with Putin's Russia.

Makes me all the more convinced that Repubs need to get beyond the imperfect of McCain; appreciate at the least, the few, but critically important Conservative principles he does have and hold on for four years; while working towards better Conservative solutions. Allowing for a 'four-year inch' with McCain is the only viable option versus the 'four-year' inch that will be 'miles' should we allow those so embedded with Marxist ideology to settle into the most powerful office of our nation and the world-at-large.