his sons posture as libertarians, supposedly the antithesis of authoritarians.

Rachel did a great job last night (Fri), btw, of sounding huge alarms. I was shaken by her summary of things.

Specifically over Japanese investments. One of Hitler’s great miscalculations was to declare war on the United States losing support of Republican isolationist.

for purely political partisan and personal reasons.

Many observers of that day agree that this GOP has become far worse. This one's made up of the same bad stuff, but they're much farther down the bad road they were taking then. Nixon and his band of criminals were constrained by at least some continued belief in the importance of our institutions and their roles in them. This GOP, no.

When people show us what they are, we should believe them.

Had them hold the hostages till he took office, later Iran Contra...