“Stevenson was touted as an intellectual, compared to the dunce Eisenhower.”
Progressives brilliant, Conservatives stupid; Progressives brilliant, Conservatives stupid; Progressives brilliant, Conservatives stupid. (Repeat daily)
One thinks of all the young men who fought to rid Europe of Nazis only to hear the Progressives in this country use the same tactics used by those Nazis.
(Herr Goebbles must be smiling wherever he might be.)
IMHO
The Nazis are a textbook illustration of the fact that a ruthless minority can seize control of a liberal democracy, especially in a country without a tradition of tolerance and pluralism. They learned from the Bolsheviks and instructed the Alinskyite Democrats.