“...comparing these times to Nazi Germany in the early 30s, the French Jacobins, and the Bolsheviks. He talks about how the highly motivated small minority took over and destroyed entire countries and how fast the revolutions happened.”
This is exactly what my husband says. We need to fight back with every ounce of resolve we have.
The Triumph of the Will.
What exactly are you willing to do? Vote? No one is at the point of being willing to take up arms and that’s probably what it would take.
Sorry for this archaic reference but your inclusion of the Jacobins (and by connection, with France’s Louis XIV) made me think we may need a “Marlborough” quality LEADER to retake our country. Perhaps at great cost. Donald Trump may be our time’s Duke of Marlboro.