"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years."

- France Minister for the EU

Ideally, government funding of the media would not depend on the executive branch, it would be institutionalized in a way that it would not sway with election cycles

We are all very comfortable using the 1930s/40s German public as our case study in collective guilt. I think more fruitful and relevant examples can be found in the United States’ own history: Indian genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, Chinese exclusion, Japanese internment, etc from the 17th century on.

His age, basically, and the chaos that would ensue in the movement in his absence. One can hope.