Forward Kentucky: History professor: Trump and Maga will try to create a dictatorship
EDITOR'S NOTE: Murray State University historian David Pizzo is a member of United Campus Workers of Kentucky. He was also a featured speaker at aPaducah Labor Day program a few years ago.
By BERRY CRAIG
“I think the question of how bad it gets is to some degree up to us.”
Ninety years ago, pioneer CBS radio journalist William L. Shirer arrived in Germany to cover Adolf Hitler and his then year-old Nazi dictatorship.
“There was much that impressed, puzzled, and troubled a foreign observer about the new Germany,” Shirer wrote in his famous post-World War II book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. “The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation.”
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has been called an authoritarian, even a fascist. He admires dictators like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.