This week, we talk about the enormous stakes for democracy in 2024, pick the person of the week and share some Thanksgiving Day pointers.
Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump declared on Truth Social (on Veterans Day weekend, no less) that “the radical left thugs ... live like vermin within the confines of our country.” He repeated the invective during an appearance in New Hampshire. As Forbes pointed out, “The former president’s incendiary rhetoric invokes a term frequently used by Nazis to dehumanize Jews, including a 1939 quote attributed to Hitler: ‘This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies.’”