Comment by spectraldrift

Here’s how you can tell the letter's argument is dangerously empty: change one phrase, from 'The United States' to 'The Third Reich.' The fact that the entire letter still reads completely coherently, and suddenly sounds like authentic WW2 propaganda, shows that its core logic was never about America in the first place.

For example:

> "The Third Reich is not, and should not be permitted to become, a soft compromise and amalgam of global values and tastes. A reticence or perhaps incapacity to pronounce and to prefer... has had costs."