“ . . I grew up in Austria. I’m very aware of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys. . ”
“ . . Growing up, I was surrounded by broken men drinking away the guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. . ”
“ . . Many just went along, step by step . . ”
“ . . Now, I’ve never shared this so publicly because it is a painful memory. But my father would come home drunk once or twice a week, and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I didn’t hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family, and so was the next neighbor over. . ”
A powerful statement by the former governor of California.
21 Jan 2021, 2:41 am
