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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, March twelfth, and this is the warning.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty seven evenings. From tonight, America will

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Speaker 1: learn who the next president of the United States is.

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Speaker 1: One of these two men will be the next commander

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Speaker 1: incited an insurrection when he lost the presidential election when

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Speaker 1: The only real parallels go all the way back to secession,

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Speaker 1: it that Washington did? What he did was walk away

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Speaker 1: the idea that an idea is paramount, that a system

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Speaker 1: This is Donald Trump's greatest disgrace, his most acute treachery,

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Speaker 1: his refusal to bow to the American people who gave

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Speaker 1: it came to this idea that is the antithesis of freedom,

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Speaker 1: that is the poison of liberty. This idea has a name.

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Speaker 1: It's called fascism. It's what Hitler believed in. It's what

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Speaker 1: important to understand Donald Trump when he talks about his

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Speaker 1: the mind of man that puts the human being above,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty seven days left to learn more,

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Speaker 1: to understand deeply what it is that Donald Trump admires

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Speaker 1: when he sees Vladimir Putin, and what he is nostalgic

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Speaker 1: about when he sees a picture of Adolph Hitler. Understand

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Speaker 1: the thread that runs between and through both men, and

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Speaker 1: understand the thread that connects Donald Trump to Charles Limberg

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Speaker 1: into the American fascists of the booned in the nineteen thirties,

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Speaker 1: the work of American patriots, and the cause of American

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Speaker 1: patriots in the choice ahead is simple. It is to

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Speaker 1: American people have ever faced, and hands down, it's the

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Speaker 1: comes next will be the product of that decision. Catastrophe

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Speaker 1: or renewal, It is in the hands of the American people,

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Speaker 1: as it always has been until now. They have never

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Speaker 1: given away the power and the freedom that is their

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Speaker 1: birthright to a single person telling the greatest lie that's

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Speaker 1: What is it the notion that I alone can fix it?

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Speaker 1: Don't believe it. It's very deadly. Thank you for listening

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