Hitler was counting above all on racism and religious bigotry to carry the day in the United States, - Rachel Maddow

In the lead-up to World War II, the U.S. Congress was rife with treachery, deceit, and almost unfathomable actions on the part of people who had sworn to defend the Constitution but who instead got themselves implicated in a plot to end it.

I wish to say — and I say it without the slightest hesitation — that if I had my way about it at this hour, I would build a wall about the United States so high and so secure that not a single alien or foreign refugee from any country upon the face of the earth could possibly scale or ascend it.” —

the divide between haves and have-nots, fear and hatred of immigrants, white supremacist race hate, and antisemitism