I am vacationing in Amsterdam, and visited the Resistance Museum today. What was so chilling to both my husband and me was how after Holland was occupied, and thought at first the Germans were not so bad, the Germans incrementally introduced their “program” to exterminate Jews and exert control over the country. In stages — and shockingly familiar early ones, like our current situation: The rhetoric, the replacing of all top intelligence and law enforcement. Classic authoritarian moves.
It’s not our imagination. This is the real deal.