Share This Speech With Everyone You Know August 25, 2025 WATCH J.B. PRITZKER’S SPEECH! And then, if you have time: America Tips Into Fascism I think many Americans wrongly believed there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different. Today, August 25, 2025, is that morning. . . . Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go? Do we end up “merely” like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an “American Reich”? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015. → Clearly worth reading in full. BUT NOT BEFORE YOU WATCH J.B. PRITZKER’S SPEECH — and share it with everyone you know. That’s part of fighting back.