Hitler was counting above all on racism and religious bigotry to carry the day in the United States, and to set the stage for global domination. - Rachel Maddow

The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.

I spent the weekend curled up with the Marine Corps and Army counterinsurgency field manual—because that's how I roll on the weekends.

The German propaganda operation in America, according to the first U.S. academic study on the topic, identified these kernels of disturbance as “racial controversies, economic inequalities, petty jealousies in public life,” and “differences of opinion which divide political parties and minority groups.” Even the “frustrated ambitions of discarded politicians.” Germany’s agents were tasked with finding these fissures in American society and then prying them further apart, exploiting them to make Americans hate and suspect each other, and maybe even wish for a new kind of country altogether. A partisan, bickering, demoralized America, the Nazis believed, would be incapable of mounting a successful war effort in Europe. It might even soften us up for an eventual takeover.