[logicchains]

>There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has.

What do you mean it never has? FDR literally stole everybody's gold in 1933 and got away with it.

[starkd]

Good point. Tyranny is not all or nothing gambit.

[EGreg]

FDR was, in a sense, the Trump of the Democratic party. Hated by the industrialists, and he welcomed their hatred.

Big populist, had the Japanese put into internment camps, turned back ships full of Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, and so forth.