Is it only me who feels that the United States never appears to learn from history. It keeps involving itself in say, the Middle East, with disastrous consequences for the invaded as well as the invaders. If this country refuses to see the errors of its own ways, how can we expect it to learn from Germany's descent into the evil blood-letting madness of WWll? Since Jennifer Chiaverini shows us Arvid passing vital secret economic data to American government officials, this country cannot claim ignorance about what was happening or was about to happen. At the same time, DDemocratic President Roosevelt did not criticize Hitler's policies towards the Jews, fearing angry reactions from antisemitic Americans, proving once again that all politics are local. Republican Donald Trump's arrival on the scene signaled the answer to the prayers of all the racists and xenophobes still smarting from their perceived insult of having to endure a black President for eight years. Trump's eventual departure from the scene will not automatically mean the end of race-baiting and intolerance. It will just go away and wait for the next demagogue to come along as the answer to their wet dreams. Trump's continuing trashing of that part of the media that endeavors to bring us the facts, that is outlets other than Fox News, Rush Limbaugh et al, is intended to tar the honest media with a black brush, and make some Americans who bother to read newspapers distrustful and suspicious, while the rest gobble up every word uttered by Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter as Gospel truth.