The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those… — Timothy Snyder

Fascists rejected reason... denying objective truth in favor of glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people.

Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century.

Since the American colonies declared their independence... [m]any... democracies... failed, in circumstances that in some important respects resemble our own.