Mark Twain is credited with saying that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
It was the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933, that created the climate for Hitler to suppress civil liberties and seize total control of Germany. The assassination of Charlie Kirk now has the Trump administration threatening to crackdown on “a left-wing network that funds and incites violence.” (New York Times, Sept. 15, 2025) I know of no such network. Do you?
I fear history is indeed rhyming. Trump’s own “enabling act” would seem to be in the offing. –S/f, EFP