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Where Are the Republicans to Stop Trump’s Dismantling of the United States?
As Trump erodes democracy, will republicans ever find their voice?
While his supporters list many of his accomplishments, including ordering his Church to provide sanctuary and aid for people attempting to escape fascist terror, Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli, 2 March 1939 through 9 October 1958) may forever be remembered in history by his detractors as the Pope who relinquished the power of his voice as the leader of the Catholic Church by not speaking out forcefully in the face of Italian fascism and German Nazi tyranny in the ongoing Holocaust.
Though British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (May 1937 until May 1940) may have believed that by signing the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany he would quench Hitler’s expansionist desires, he will forever be remembered as the man who enabled Germany’s colonial conquest of a continent.
One of the many differences between President Donald Trump and both Pope Pius XII and Neville Chamberlain — in addition to Trump’s lack of integrity, morals, and good intentions — is his direct collusion with the forces of tyranny and destruction.
