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Speaker 1: American fascism doesn't look like Polish fascism, doesn't look like

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Speaker 1: German fascism, doesn't look like Russian fascism. But the fascism

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Speaker 1: is the same. The character of it is the same,

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Speaker 1: the nature of it is the same. It is Monday,

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Speaker 1: April to first. There are two hundred and seventeen days

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Speaker 1: left until the American people will make a decision that

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Speaker 1: shapes the destiny of the United States. I am in Warsaw, Poland,

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Speaker 1: and this is the warning. I stepped out of my

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Speaker 1: hotel the other day and turned right and started walking

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Speaker 1: towards Warsaw's old town, past the presidential Palace. The first

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Speaker 1: thing I noticed different than most of European capitals is

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Speaker 1: there was no evidence of English being spoken anywhere. I

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Speaker 1: heard none, not a word. I was walking and I

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Speaker 1: heard many different languages. I heard Ukrainian, I heard Polish,

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Speaker 1: I heard Russian, but no English. A little bit down

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Speaker 1: the street, I came upon a rally. There was an

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Speaker 1: ominous music playing percussive. The bass was reverberating, pounding, dread

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Speaker 1: was the tone I could best describe it as. In

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Speaker 1: front of a poster which featured a pure blue eyed

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Speaker 1: golden blonde young girl then judgtaposed against a darkened image

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Speaker 1: a different future, were laying dozens of body bags. There

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Speaker 1: were black uniformed members of the political party associated with

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Speaker 1: the event handing out flyers. I knew exactly what it was.

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Speaker 1: I could not read a word of the language, I

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Speaker 1: could not understand a word that was spoken, and yet

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Speaker 1: I knew precisely what it was that I was saying.

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Speaker 1: That is something that I think about often at the

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Speaker 1: warning and through all of my commentary over what incredibly

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Speaker 1: is now almost a decade. The Trump era has lasted

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Speaker 1: nine years. I was in my early forties when it began,

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Speaker 1: and now I'm in my early fifties. It rolls on,

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Speaker 1: but we are at a very different place nine years

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Speaker 1: later from where all of this started, when Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: came down the escalator promising a campaign of hate, insinuating

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Speaker 1: that Mexicans who come to America are all rapists and murderers,

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Speaker 1: and it's been all downhill from there. I've always had

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Speaker 1: a lot of intention about the words I use. They

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Speaker 1: have meaning, they have purpose. I don't use them frivolously.

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Speaker 1: If I use a term like annihilate, it's because I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to convey a certain type of destruction. If I

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Speaker 1: use words like savagery and brutality, I'm trying to convey

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Speaker 1: despicable and horrific acts. If I use the word fascist,

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Speaker 1: I don't use it lightly, because to do so with

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Speaker 1: dishonor the dead that the fascist killed and murdered in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the twentieth century. I am in Warsaw

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Speaker 1: and I am next to the old town. It is

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Speaker 1: one of humanity's greatest achievements. It's rebuilding. It was rebelized,

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Speaker 1: turned to ash and dust on purpose for vengeance and

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Speaker 1: retribution because of an uprising against Nazi rule and against

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Speaker 1: Nazi occupation by the brave people of Poland. When the

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Speaker 1: war was over, it was rebuilt brick by brick. It's

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Speaker 1: a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But the thing is, if

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Speaker 1: you were to walk around the downtown as a young

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Speaker 1: person without knowledge of the history, it would seem that

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Speaker 1: this medieval city has existed in perpetuity, uninterrupted for a

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Speaker 1: day by violence or dread, or death or occupation. There

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Speaker 1: is no signs unless you look closely for what happened.

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Speaker 1: But there on a wall is a marker one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty poles were lined up against the wall and

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Speaker 1: shot here, and there's another one. Two hundred more killed here,

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Speaker 1: and here was where the Jews rose up and fought.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere there are pock marked buildings scarred by bullet holes

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Speaker 1: from the fighting. Tremendous savagery in violence was done in

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Speaker 1: Poland by fascism, by the fascists. And so when I

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Speaker 1: came upon that rally and I saw the black uniforms,

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Speaker 1: and I saw the symbolism, I saw the iconography, I

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Speaker 1: saw the subdued SWASTI because I knew exactly what it was,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have to wait, just like I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to wait to make judgments about the Patriot Front where

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Speaker 1: the oathkeepers are the Proud Boys, because they were all

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Speaker 1: part of the same movement, part of the same cause.

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Speaker 1: When you see this truck on an American highway, what

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Speaker 1: this is is a American Taliban. This isn't normal in politics,

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Speaker 1: but this is four wheel drive fascism. That truck in

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Speaker 1: the convoy and many more like it, which we'll see

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Speaker 1: over the months ahead, is designed to intimidate, to threaten,

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Speaker 1: to menace. The flags off the back, the thin blue

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Speaker 1: line on the black and white American flag, the Blue

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Speaker 1: Lives Matter flag, a flag that supposedly denotes in a

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Speaker 1: filiation and affinity for law enforcement, flying from a truck

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Speaker 1: that has an image of the Hogtide. President of the

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Speaker 1: United States kidnapped, no doubt, on his way to imaginary execution. Well,

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Speaker 1: the simple truth is this, Donald Trump has incited violence

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Speaker 1: in America for many years now, and he's caused violence

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Speaker 1: in America. He will cause more political violence in America.

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Speaker 1: When you see an image like this, so the President

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Speaker 1: that the leader of the free world, the office of

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Speaker 1: the President of the United States, said it's dignity is

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Speaker 1: so disrespected. Donald Trump does not admire the values of

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Speaker 1: freedom and liberty. So when he looks at a Swede

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Speaker 1: a German that believes in an idea that has lit

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Speaker 1: the world, that we're all created equally endowed by a

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Speaker 1: higher creator of power beyond our comprehension with rights, life

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Speaker 1: and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This is the

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Speaker 1: great fault line of humanity, the people who live on

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Speaker 1: one side of freedom and people who are trapped imprisoned

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Speaker 1: on another. A great contest station is under a way

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Speaker 1: again in the world, between those forces, between the forces

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Speaker 1: of freedom and slavery, between fascism and democracy, and it's

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Speaker 1: a competition that's just beginning. It's important to recognize what

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Speaker 1: it is that you see. Can you see the fascism

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Speaker 1: directly in front of you? Can you see the threat?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what it means when someone promises vengeance

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Speaker 1: and retribution? Can you smell the death at hand? Because

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Speaker 1: it will come. All of this has meaning. It's playing

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Speaker 1: out in a moment in time, at the edge of

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Speaker 1: an era of history that is ending. With the lifespans

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Speaker 1: of the people who survived history's greatest cataclysm, the Second

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Speaker 1: World War. Millions were killed, eighty million people around the world,

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Speaker 1: And when that event was over and freedom won, everybody

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Speaker 1: understood that humanity would not survive the next war, that

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Speaker 1: what had occurred could never be forgotten, that it must

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Speaker 1: always be remembered so it could never happen again. You

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Speaker 1: do not have to walk far, not in Poland, not

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Speaker 1: in America, to see the signs of arising in incipient fascism,

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Speaker 1: a new fascism, a new darkness. It is in Hungary,

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Speaker 1: it is in Russia, an access rising between North Korea, China, Russia,

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Speaker 1: and Iran that is inimically hostile to the concepts of freedom, pluralism, equality,

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Speaker 1: demand to live in humanity's natural state, and that condition

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Speaker 1: is freedom. A time of testing is coming. A great

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Speaker 1: choice is ahead for the American people. Two hundred and

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Speaker 1: The choice will be between a man who believes in

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Speaker 1: an idea that is at the core of all human progress,

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Speaker 1: freedom and one who does not. The one who does

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Speaker 1: not is named Donald Trump. What he believes in is

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Speaker 1: power for himself, for himself. His supporters have grown fanatical,

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Speaker 1: and that fanaticism is dangerous. When you see an image

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Speaker 1: like this, an image of violence, know that they mean it.

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Speaker 1: They always do. Fascists are violence. Violence is fascism. It

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Speaker 1: killed tens of millions, and it's rising again. It's incumbent

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Speaker 1: on all of us to be able to recognize it.

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Speaker 1: Our survival depends on it. Two hundred and seventeen days

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Speaker 1: to go, and this is the Warning. Thank you for

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