A Reason for Hope

Published at 12:59 on 11 November 2016

This has got to be one of the most straight-talking pieces I have seen an Establishment politican write. That there are voices inside the system that realize how profoundly different this transition is, and refrain from the standard rhetoric of transition, is encouraging.

Plus, there are reports that military and intelligence officers are contemplating resigning or engaging in internal resistance to Trump.

Governments do not exist as tangible entities. They are merely groups of people cooperating with each other. If those people choose to not cooperate, or to cooperate in ways contrary to the leaders’ wish, a leader can be rendered powerless.

Adolf Hitler would be a mostly forgotten, sad, and largely harmless footnote in history if at the crucial time great masses of Germans had simply refused to obey him. This is not hypothetical; the Nazis were given precisely this treatment by the peoples of both Denmark and Bulgaria, when they tried to implement the Final Solution, the result of which was that virtually all the Jews in both nations were saved.

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