I'm having a difficult time contemplating and discussing with family and friends that a few of the people I went to synagogue with, when I was little, are voting for Trump, or considering doing so. Apparently "Never Again" meant something different to them than it did to me. And some of them, whether they presently believe in God or not, stupidly buy into to the idea that Trump's support of Israel (real or perceived) should be counted as enough to vote for him. Shameful. Do they think another Holocaust is ok if it is against groups other than Jews? Are they ok with the mass-killing-by-pandemic-malfeasance and mass-killing-by-climate-policy-malfeasance that we are already beginning? Are they just generally ok with the death of the rule of law in the US of A and the parallels (as far as I can recall) between what happened in pre-Nazi Germany and what is happening now in the US?

So, knowing history is not a cure-all. These are people who damn well know what Auschwitz was, but still are apparently thinking along the lines of "sure, let's do that again, but this time a bit different".