It is the 7th of January, 2025, and there are 13 days remaining until the noon hour,

when Donald Trump will step forward, raise his hand, swear the 35-word oath, and then receive

the 21 gun salute due to the President of the United States, and all of the attendant ruffles

and flourishes, hail to the Chief will be played, and the 47th president of the

United States of America will stand before the nation and deliver an inaugural address that will

shock the conscience of this country. This is the warning. Democracy means nothing to people who cannot comprehend what lies beyond it.

When Emmanuel Macron says, can you imagine that 10 years ago, the leader of a social media

network would be interfering in European democratic elections.

And he must stop.

Yes, the president of the French Republic should understand that people 10 years ago foresaw it.

The German chancellor, Olaf Schultz, has said he's not worried.

What he said, and this is incredible, is that Germany, a nation of 74 million, could never fall under the sway of a man who lies.

The German Chancellor's position is it couldn't happen in Germany.

Maga or the fall of democracy or whatever from the German Chancellor's perspective now, it's an American thing. But let me be the first to remind the German

Chancellor, if I may, it can happen in Germany. And it has. What is it that I'm talking about

having happened in Germany?

Is it the end result of the Holocaust, the annihilation of the Jews?

It's not. What happened in Germany is the story of someone saying something outrageous and then making it come true.

Germany is the story of what happened next and next after that and next after

that until it exceeded the bonds of human imagination. The man who saved the world, Winston Churchill,

in his private reflections, wondered if it was too late. It came that close. If nobody can imagine what it is like to live

in a society without freedom, then it becomes impossible to appreciate what freedom is.

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