Why is our so-called democratic society suppressing freedom of speech? | Laura Flanders

Trump stoking bigotry and calling journalists enemies of the people' is reminiscent of Hitler. It's hard to imagine - until it isn't

Claud Cockburn, my grandfather, knew when it was time to leave Berlin.

A young British journalist, he'd worked as a correspondent for The [London] Times in that city in the 1920s before transferring to New York and Washington DC. Returning to Germany in July 1932, he saw storm Troopers slashing and smashing up and down the Kurfuerstendamm", and war propaganda: huge exhibitions of the Front', soldier figures standing in a real-life size trench playing with a dummy machine gun", he wrote.