Ep 892: She Told Us So
In this week's episode, we examine the disturbing realities of Trump's America in 2025, where Supreme Court rulings are ignored, critics face politically motivated investigations, and erratic tariff policies create economic chaos. We connect these developments to warnings we shared a year ago about the rise of fascism, reminding listeners that what's happening now was entirely predictable. (Kamala Harris said she wasn't gonna say "I told you so" as she DID.). As we document the administration's escalating attacks on democratic norms, we also highlight the growing resistance nationwide. Join us for a sobering assessment of our current crisis and a discussion about what victory must look like in the fight against American fascism. We told you so - and now we're asking what comes next.
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Thanks again for reading from “They Thought They Were Free” and for a very thoughtful interpretation of the words. And thanks for sharing what’s on your bookshelf in a recent post.
Another Nazi book worthy of a close read is Peter Frietzsche’s "Hitler’s First Hundred Days." I received it from a friend who left notes and exclamation marks on just about every page. There’s a small section about newspapers, which is straight out of a Driftglass post.
The newspapers of the conservative establishment—who really wanted their own dictatorship—were pros at sane washing Hitler and their SA. Here’s Frietzsche writing about one such paper:
“In other words, the newspaper came out against Nazi terror once it had been consigned to the past or to a corner. It was an odd position; although terror was bad, the newspaper had no principled equipment to combat it. The conservatives first denied violence, blaming Communists and not the SA. Then they made excuses by indicating that the victims had once been perpetrators not personally, but somehow collectively or they justified the violence as one of the onerous burdens of counterrevolutionary struggle.Then they ignored it. Law and order and accountability were not allowed to muddy what had to be clear … Conservatives, nationalists, and even Sebastian Haffner's [a "sophisticated" conservative kind of guy] friends did not speak up for the basic freedoms of civil society because they were too busy dancing alongside the Nazis.”
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