The fascist playbook

Florida Veterans for Common Sense agrees with your editorial, “America’s most dire threat is from within.”

On Veterans Day, we sponsored a talk by fascism expert Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat. She spoke about how the great MAGA leader is following the fascist playbook to grab and hold power.

We are confident that if Americans know this fascist drill, they will reject it. The MAGA movement, once in power, will strip our rights and freedoms from us such as abortion rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, academic freedom and even the right to vote.

In her talk, Dr. Ben-Ghiat provided details, explaining in short that MAGA does not respect American democratic norms.

As Dr. Ben-Ghiat warned us in her talk, “If Trump is elected, he will never leave.” Gene Jones, Sarasota

The writer is president of Florida Veterans for Common Sense.