In just a few days , you will have the single opportunity to make America, America again. If Congress does not revert to a Democratic majority, expect the trend to authoritarianism to accelerate. In 1932 Berlin, good citizens said �it can�t happen here�. It did, and the same viruses can be spread here. But only if voters allow it to happen.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
1. There have always been violent extremists. But when attacks happened under Reagan or Clinton or Bush or Obama, you couldn�t point to insane anti-Semitic conspiracy theories they had recently spread. They didn�t praise neo-Nazis. They didn�t call reporters �enemy of the people�
2. They didn�t explicitly praise political violence by saying a man who committed violent assault was �their kind of guy.� They didn�t tell their supporters that they would pay for legal fees if they �knocked the crap� out of peaceful protesters.
3. They didn�t promote doctored videos of them violently knocking down their opponents by hitting them with a golf ball. They didn�t share video of them punching and tackling a news network that criticized them. They didn�t call political opponents �a stain on America.�
4. Their closing ads didn�t feature three prominent Jews (with ominous music) claiming they controlled the global levers of power. They didn�t share memes of their opponents with a Star of David and a pile of cash. They didn�t lead chants to �lock up� their opponents.
5. They didn�t explicitly demonize people because of the color of their skin or their religion. They didn�t say �2nd Amendment people� would need to take things into their own hands if their opponent won. They didn�t downplay attacks and amplify lunatics who called them hoaxes.
6. They didn�t absurdly suggest that their opponents had �founded� terrorist groups. They didn�t legitimize outlets like InfoWars, which stoke hate while spreading lunatic lies. They didn�t wake up every morning and target a new scapegoat who later received bombs in the mail.
7. When attacks happened, they didn�t lament that it was politically inconvenient. They didn�t �joke� that they were the real victim because the subsequent press conference gave them �a bad hair day.� They didn�t attack the victims of attacks the same day they were attacked.
8. This shouldn�t be a Democrat vs. Republican issue. It�s democracy vs. authoritarian populism; decency vs. bigotry; and empathy vs. cruelty. Presidents didn�t used to behave like this. They didn�t praise political violence. Vote�to bring the US back to decent leadership.
