Modern Fascism

The man who claimed to be his nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote.
He was a simpleton, who saw things in black-and-white terms.
He did not have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation.
His course use of language and his inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well educated.
When extremists stuck a prestigious building he rushed to the scene and called a press conference.
He declared war not on another nation but on a tactic: terrorism.
He built detention centers for "terrorists."
He suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeous corpus.
His "Homeland Security" forces intercepted mail, wiretapped phones, imprisoned suspected terrorists without specific charges and without access to their lawyers.
Citizens who protested where fenced off in protest zones or beaten or gassed.
He argued that any international body that didn't act in the best interests of his own nation was neither relevant nor useful.
He touted his Christian faith and called for a revival of faith in his nation.
He brought the executives of the nation's largest corporations into the government.
And he invaded and annexed other countries to increase his own wealth.

Fascism must be resisted.
The German people thought they were free, even as they gave away their democracy.