Congress? Hello—federal workers here. We are struggling to fight all of this on our own.

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I'm glad my grandfather passed before he could see the Nazis take power a second time

I do understand that. It's difficult to know what's coming, and that lack of certainty brings with it a lot of fear. My family fled to America right before the Holocaust really "took off" so to speak. There's a certain etching of that in my bones

in which way?