Whistling Past the Graveyard of History?

So You Think Tyranny Can’t Happen Here? [More]

Dr. Miguel A. Faria, Jr. shows us where it's already arrived and warns where history says it must lead.

I'm reminded of a question I've never seen a gun-grabber answer:

“Has not despotism and mass destruction plagued every civilization that preceded ours? Is it not, in fact, still commonplace throughout the globe? By what suspension of reality, by what denial of the observable and the probable, by what art, device or magic are we sheltered few immune from catastrophe?”