Letter: Parallels with Hitler too obvious to ignore

Donald Trump is following Hitler’s playbook to the letter. First, he energized his nationalistic base by demonizing a group of “outsiders,” blaming them for the country’s problems, while declaring opposition political parties enemies of the state.

Letter: Shades of McCarthyism in modern political war

The indictments of Letitia James and James Comey echo a chilling moment from the “Army-McCarthy Hearings” in 1954, when U. S. Army counsel Joseph N. Welch told Joseph McCarthy, “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”.