Democrats must stop the evil Trumpziism agenda before America turns into "Berlin 1930"

Echo opinion letter published in the Los Angeles Times:

I see Trump committing irrational and evil acts, and just when I think it couldn’t get more outrageous, it does. Why can’t he be stopped? Why are these bright, well-meaning people like former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and many others unable to get a result?

By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and was leading the world into war. A young foreign correspondent was on hand to bear witness.  More than two decades prior to the publication of his acclaimed history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer was a journalist stationed in Berlin. During his years in the Nazi capital, he kept a daily personal diary, scrupulously recording everything he heard and saw before being forced to flee the country in 1940.

I cannot ignore the parallels between the fascist strongmen of recent history and the era of tea party politics that ultimately spawned Trump and MAGA.

In his chilling memoir of pre-war Nazi Germany, “Berlin Diary,” CBS correspondent William Shirer could not hide his uncontrolled rage and indignation over what he was witnessing. 

While listening to almost every word of Trump’s impeachment proceedings and the House January 6 committee hearings, I felt the same. After watching many, many journalists, pundits and politicians vent their indignation, I realized that not one person has been able to do anything effective about this threat to rational democracy.

I am reminded of the crusty Boston lawyer who finally stood up to Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1954, saying in exasperation, “Have you no sense of decency?”

I own an advertising and marketing agency, and I believe newspapers are declining because of a failure to provide what people want. It is not only the digital ecosystem capturing attention. People want the truth, but it must be communicated in a way they can use, not just read.

From Michael Blair, Simi Valley, California

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