History of fascism, and their mobs, Bucharest, November, 1940, could never happen here, of course, but the fanaticism, racism, adoration of lawlessness and religious mixture is notable.

AP Correspondent Robert St. John, from Foreign Correspondent:

The 155,000 spectators and participants looked like normal human beings. They all had arms and legs, wore dresses or trousers, smoked cigarettes, bought newspapers, talked, got hungry and in many other respects behaved normally. Yet they seemed to be people gone mad. That day under the banner of Christianity they were doing honour to fourteen murderers, fourteen leaders of a terroristic organisation which just this week had inflicted on the country a fresh wave of bloodletting, sadism, masochism and horror.

The memory will always remain vivid because I saw that day how frightening religious ecstasy can be when it gets out of control. Some of us feared, as we watched and listened, that the generation of so much emotionalism in so many thousands of responsible people would be bound to have frightful repercussions. Our fears turned out to have been justified.

 What we saw that day reminded me of what happens when a lynch mob works itself into a frenzy. This was a lynch mob of 155,000 people. Almost every imaginable device for stirring the emotions was used on them before the day was over.

And there was not a single person in the ENTIRE country who had the courage to stand up and shout:

"STOP! This way lies madness!"

You still don't get it that it's all about him and nobody else and nothing else? He's such a flip flopper that he'd become a Dem if the Dems win the Senate and the House. If Dems win enough of his red red districts he'll become a true blue Dem, he'll make MAGA hats in blue. He'll drop old fans to get new ones in a "New York minute". There's no policy there, none, only the Donald.

By the way, I recall it was very common back at TPM Cafe during Katrina to call Bush and his entire family racist and to post lots of reasons why. There was a whole section to do that. Lots of strum and drang.

Edit to add: I don't really need to get into what Trump would or wouldn't do in the future. My only point here was to say: it's becoming clear that Don't Feed The Troll and They go low, you go high is wise advice. Centrist and left media and entertainment personalities should stop feeding the right troll, stop the name calling shtick, it's what they want: culture wars. Just say no to culture wars, it will drag you down, that's the main purpose, to do a Hatfield and McCoy thing.

I'm not sure how this plays into the Bee thing, since I doubt you're calling her a troll but maybe you're saying she was feeding one??