Friday, January 31, 2025

the last book I ever read (Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, excerpt nineteen)

from Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa:

Sanders had grown up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, the son of a Polish immigrant paint salesman who never made enough money to fulfill his wife’s dreams of not living in a rent-controlled apartment. Much of his family was wiped out in Poland during the Holocaust.

He told Biden and his colleagues they could not take anything for granted after January 6. Who says more horror could not happen here?

“As a kid, I read a lot about the Holocaust and Germany in the 1930s,” Sanders later told other. “Germany was one of the most cultured countries in Europe. One of the most advanced countries. So how could a country of Beethoven, of so many great poets and writers, and Einstein, progress to barbarianism?

“How does that happen? We have to tackle that question. And it’s not easy.”



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