Thanks for the thoughtful response. You are a History Prof and sensible/successful Medium writer, so you know that I appreciate your talking points. But what scares me is that we're rather lonely canaries in the coal mine. As a child and growing up, I listened carefully to the stories of the war vets and Eastern European survivors I met (also the survivors of the Armenian & Cambodian genocides, Holocaust survivors etc). How quickly people forget (or never learn in the first place), and become mindless totalitarian lackeys. I even have friends who watch Tucker Carlson, and believe that Zelensky is a corrupt warlord or some such (and I make them watch "Servant of the People" on Netflix). The warped Nationalism of today is like the 30s, except juiced by the internet. It seems FDR (and now Biden) did/are doing the right things, yet against a backdrop of false conspiratorial nonsense (when the real Fascist conspiracy is right in front of them). Sad to say, just as Pearl Harbor woke us up then, do we need a similar event today to wake us up into reality? The next article I'm thinking of writing goes something like "Are Donald Trump and Jill Stein both Putin creations"? (ie far-left weird complicity with far-right recalls Communist-Fascist conflicts of late 20s, same players with different uniforms? One abets the other?) Another might be "Why do Nixon/Reagan, who I hated at the time, now seem like Patriots?"

Keep writing, my friend. You honestly deserve a platform higher than Medium (Atlantic Monthly maybe?).

PS-Per recent events, is "1984" about to be banned vis a vis the rather Orwellian discovery that Orwell himself was not nice enough?