I want to start this intro by stipulating without reservation that the friendly fire podcast is against Hitler.

Hitler comes up a lot in conversation these days and although we feel it should be obvious we are 100% against Hitler, we still want to reassure you that,

yes, we are opposed to Hitler.

People want to hear clear denunciations of Hitler because despite what you may have said and or done your whole life up to this point, if you are not current on your public Hitler hating, you may have slid into Hitler liking while no one was watching and now are at least as bad as

Hitler if not worse.

So we are against Hitler.

Whoo, thank goodness we got that out of the way.

For at least the next hour you can be certain about where we stand.

It's possible by the time this show airs that we all have become

acolites of Hitler, so be sure to check in with us on social media

and interrogate us about our politics.

And then feel free to ignore what we say and make your own determination about where we stand

on Hitler.

I suggest you start with Adam.

Most of my life people were quick to reassure themselves that Hitler was an aberration.

Again and again, he was explained away as an accident of time and place.

It couldn't have happened before and could never happen again. We were confident

above all else that democracy was sturdy. But it turns out it's fairly easy to convince the

majority of people they're actually a persecuted minority.

In fact, I bet everyone listening to this show right now regards themselves in somewhere or another

as a disenfranchised outsider.

Right?

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