The Trump Nightmare Returns: “We Have Met The Enemy, And They Is Us”

By Mel Gurtov\PeaceVoice Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth depicts the rise to the presidency in the late 1930s of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who made the first transatlantic solo flight. Lindbergh made several trips to Nazi Germany and “expressed quite openly his high regard for Hitler, calling Germany the world’s ‘most interesting nation’ and its leader ‘a great man,’” all while Hitler was in the midst of his pogrom of the Jews. When it was suggested to Lindbergh that, in light of Hitler’s savagery, he return the garish medal given him by Air Marshal Göring, Lindbergh said that would “constitute ‘an unnecessary insult’ to the Nazi leadership.” Fascism in Charge Now the American people have turned fiction into fact, electing an admirer of Hitler and deflecting concerns about his chief bankroller, another Hitler admirer.   Granted that “fascist” has become a very loose term of opprobrium to apply to dictatorial personalities, it’s still worth using, if only to clarify the frightening tendencies of would-be dictators. That means Donald Trump, who has said (like Roth’s Lindbergh) that Hitler “did some good things.” He has never disavowed that belief. Gen. Mark Milley has called Trump...