Fascism and why Hillary Clinton needs to read more history

Published June 10, 2019 7:35pm ET



As my colleague Becket Adams observes, Hillary Clinton this weekend referenced fellow former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to declare that fascism may be coming to America.

Speaking at Wellesley College, Clinton warned “the idea that [fascism] can’t happen here is just old-fashioned, my friends … the demagoguery, the appeal to the crowd, the very clever use of symbols, the intimidation, verbal and physical. This is a classic pattern. There is nothing new about it; it is just different means of messages being delivered.”

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