What's happening that's hard to process is that the appearance of a guy like Donald Trump was never contemplated, by anyone, and every time you get used to being outraged by how sick and twisted this motherfucker is, and how inhuman he is, he tops it the next day, so you can't even keep up with trying to legislate or litigate. He knows the only tool he has going for him is to desensitize us to the point where we no longer are able to tell the difference between right and wrong. And thank god we've come to this moment where a great leadership is rising up and articulating itself and saying, "This is not who we are and this is not what we are about, and the thing that you are representing is unacceptable."

"This is so much more than an election... it is a call to save the very thing that thousands and thousands of people bled for on battlefields for the last 400 years."

"When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have affected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the Sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”

—House of Commons, 2 May 1935. In a conference at Stresa, Britain, France and Italy had agreed to cooperate to maintain the independence of Austria. His fear was that this plan would be nullified by inertia. Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938. If only, Churchill was saying, these three powers had worked for peace and collective security earlier.