Eighty Years ago today, home grown American Nazis-the German-American Bund-held a rally at Madison Square garden in New York. We’re seeing lately a revival of this malignant spirit, thanks to the foul person lurking inside the White House. His rhetoric maligning Muslims, Mexicans, African-American, and other minorities have enabled the current generation of neo-Fascists to crawl out of the woodwork and terrorize all of us.

Above is a memo from the War Department, dated March 24, 1945, about the nature of Fascism. I hope this country doesn’t have to relearn, the hard way, what Fascism leads to.