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Lonestarblue

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15. DeSantis graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 14, 2023, 10:36 AM

Mar 2023

I’m sure he knows history quite well, especially the history of how fascists manipulate information and play on fear and resentment to take and keep power.

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As Florida county bans Holocaust book, actual neo-Nazis grow bold in U.S. - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC [View all] Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 OP

The people who fought against Nazism must be rolling in their graves tornado34jh Mar 2023 #1

Not to mention those of us who learned history in school, where were these traitors educated?? Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #2

Who knows? tornado34jh Mar 2023 #7

Well, somewhere along the line they learned the completely wrong views Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #8

It's not always during school tornado34jh Mar 2023 #10

Well, that's the way it was with me. I heard of Hitler when I was a kid and that he'd been our enemy Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #11

True tornado34jh Mar 2023 #13

My best childhood friend was Jewish. jaxexpat Mar 2023 #16

DeSantis graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School. Lonestarblue Mar 2023 #15

There were just as many, if not more, people in total sympathy with the Nazis Warpy Mar 2023 #9

Indeed tornado34jh Mar 2023 #12

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis keithbvadu2 Mar 2023 #3

Thanks! Horrific agenda! And we remember Charlottesville - "Fine people on both sides..." Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #4

Well, the truth is Nazism/white supremacy was never really "gone" tornado34jh Mar 2023 #6

If they want to come for our books; can we at least "come for their guns"? MagaSmash Mar 2023 #5

Kicking for Visibility SheltieLover Mar 2023 #14

Sieg Heil! Not funny. K/R appalachiablue Mar 2023 #17

US race laws inspired Hitler orthoclad Mar 2023 #18

Yikes! Great find, but scary as hell Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #19

That's just the first hit from a quick search orthoclad Mar 2023 #20

I remember my 9th grade Social Studies teacher covering the Civil Rights movement of the '60s Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #21

I grew up in a heavily German neighborhood orthoclad Mar 2023 #22

My maternal grandparents both emigrated from Poland Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #23

The American Nazi Party opened an office in a Polish neighborhood orthoclad Mar 2023 #24

Oh, Good Grief! No one wanted to get my Polish grandmother started on the nazis! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2023 #25

One of our problems orthoclad Mar 2023 #26