OBAMA: “Former President Barack Obama urged voters this week to stay engaged in democracy, warning that complacency was responsible for the rise of Nazi Germany…
During the event, the former President mentioned similar themes of responding to a changing political landscape, mentioning examples from America’s history…
Obama also defended the necessity of a free press…
Obama over the past year has occasionally voiced thinly veiled criticisms of the Trump administration’s policies, particularly on climate change, though it’s not clear from the video that he was directly addressing his successor.”
–Miranda Green, “Obama invokes Nazi Germany in warning about today’s politics,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Dec. 8, 2017 12:37pm