FIGHTING TANKS WITH DAISIES: WHY DEMOCRATS LOSE ELECTIONS
Most Americans believe that Nazi Germany was defeated because “we were the Good Guys and they were the Bad Guys.” Not so. The United States—and its allies, Great Britain and the Soviet Union—won the...
View ArticleLIKE HITLER, LIKE TRUMP: AGGRESSION AS HEROISM: PART THREE (END)
When Donald Trump isn’t picking fights with Americans, he picks them with the leaders of democratic countries. At a November 30, 2024 dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida, he...
View ArticleLIKE HITLER, LIKE TRUMP: AGGRESSION AS HEROISM–PART TWO (OF THREE)
On August 22, 2025, the PBS Newshour website carried the following headline: HEGSETH FIRES GENERAL WHOSE AGENCY’S INTEL ASSESSMENT OF U.S. STRIKES ON IRAN ANGERED TRUMP. The story opened: “Defense...
View ArticleLIKE HITLER, LIKE TRUMP: AGGRESSION AS HEROISM—PART ONE (OF TWO)
Donald Trump has often claimed himself an “America First” President. But his attitude and policies toward the military are clearly based on the “Germany First” policies of Adolf Hitler. On August...
View ArticleTHE LIE–AND TRAP–OF “VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER”
Victory Through Air Power is a 1943 Walt Disney animated Technicolor feature film released during World War II. It’s based on the book—of the same title––by Alexander P. de Seversky. Its thesis: By...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC VANISHED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART SEVEN (END)
CBS Correspondent William L. Shirer covered the Third Reich from 1934 to 1940. Writing about the rise of Adolf Hitler in his monumental bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), he...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC VANISHED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART SIX (OF...
In 2024, President Joseph Biden turned 80—six years younger than German President Paul von Hindenburg when he died—and was capable of dying literally any day. His Vice President, Kamala...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC VANISHED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART FIVE (OF...
Most Americans believe the United States is immune from the same fates of democracies that have become dictatorships. Not so New York University historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Appearing on the...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC VANISHED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART FOUR (OF...
More than two years after he tried to establish himself as a dictator, Donald Trump remained free. And he was still repeating “The Big Lie”: That he won the 2020 Presidential election but was cheated...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC VANISHED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART THREE (OF...
On January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump appeared at the Ellipse, a 52-acre park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A stage...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC DISAPPEARED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART TWO...
From November 3 to December 14, 2020, President Donald J. Trump and his allies lost 59 times in court to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. They either withdrew their cases or found them...
View ArticleFIRST THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC VANISHED, NOW THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC: PART ONE (OF...
On November 9, 1923, Nazi Party Fuhrer Adolf Hitler tried to overthrow the government in Munich, Bavaria. About 2,000 Nazis marched to the center of Munich, where they confronted heavily-armed...
View ArticleTRUMP: CREATING HIS OWN WEHRMACHT–PART TWO (END)
On August 22, the PBS Newshour website carried the following headline: HEGSETH FIRES GENERAL WHOSE AGENCY’S INTEL ASSESSMENT OF U.S. STRIKES ON IRAN ANGERED TRUMP. The story opened: “Defense Secretary...
View ArticleTRUMP: CREATING HIS OWN WEHRMACHT—PART ONE (OF TWO)
President Donald Trump is notorious as a non-reader. Nevertheless, he seems poised to re-enact one of the most fateful events in 20th century history. First, that event: On August 2, 1934, the aged...
View ArticleJUNE 6: THE GLORY AND THE AGONY
“For it is the doom of men that they forget.” —Merlin, in “Excalibur” June 6—a day of glory and tragedy. The glory came 80 years ago—on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. On that morning, Americans awoke to...
View ArticleNAIVETY AND COWARDICE: HOW DEMOCRATS LOSE ELECTIONS
Uber liberal Democrats have long forgotten an important truth: The United States and its allies—Great Britain and the Soviet Union—did not defeat Nazi Germany because “we were the Good Guys and they...
View ArticleIT’S RERUN TIME FOR THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: PART FIVE (END)
Most Americans believe the United States is immune from the same fates of democracies that have become dictatorships. Not so New York University historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Appearing on the...
View ArticleIT’S RERUN TIME FOR THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: PART FOUR (OF FIVE)
More than two years after he tried to establish himself as a dictator, Donald Trump remains free. And he is still repeating “The Big Lie”: That he won the 2020 Presidential election but was cheated of...
View ArticleIT’S RERUN TIME FOR THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
On January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump appeared at the Ellipse, a 52-acre park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A stage...
View ArticleIT’S RERUN TIME FOR THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
From November 3 to December 14, 2020, President Donald J. Trump and his allies lost 59 times in court to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. They either withdrew their cases or found them...
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