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In her 2018 book, “Fascism: A Warning,” former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, herself a refugee from totalitarians, cautioned that it is hubris at best and delusion at worst to imagine that fascism of the sort that ascended to power in 1930s Europe couldn’t do the same here. The book was released two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the ugly outlines of fascism were already discernible in Trump’s conduct. Hitler, Albright wrote, “lied incessantly about himself and about his enemies.” He duped millions of Germans into thinking that he “cared for them deeply when, in fact, he would have sacrificed them all.” He strove to nullify limits on his power. He exhorted his supporters to harm his political opponents and delighted in the suffering of his victims.