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ERRATA: I have been advised by MARK BENNETT that he is NOT the Trump appointed Judge to the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, Mark J. Bennett. For my mistake, I am deeply sorry. I was very impressed by Mr. Bennett's very lengthy dissection of Ms. Applebaum's book-essay.. I am an ordinary citizen who is worried about Trump's dismantling of our US Department of Justice, State Department, etc., etc.. I am not as "brilliant" as Mr. Bennett that is for sure. But I don't think I am stupid. I have a a degree in physics and worked as a licensed nuclear engineer during my career . I admire Anne Applebaum and have read most of her books which deal with the atrocities of Stalin's and Hitler's regimes. I have read this her latest book. My Uncle Antons was shot by the Nazis in Latvia accused by a neighbor of being a Communist. My grandparents were forcibly sent to the Third Reich labor camps. My wife's Lithuanian family, most of them, were sent to Siberia by the Communists accused of being capitalist/kulaks. That history has sensitized me to anything and everything political that may lead our government to abuse and control our lives including illegal arrests, mass incarceration, secret executions and torture, suspension of free speech, control of the air waves, etc. Mr. Barr, Mr. Yoo and others are extremely adept at formulating arguments (not necessarily legal) to subvert the Constitution. In this spirit you have done so in your "critique" of Ms. Applebaum's book in an attempt to destroy it and her. I am so afraid of people like you who are very clever, calculating and support the current GOP trend to defend trump and the GOP at all costs. But at the same time I also believe that you are also afraid of people like Ms. Applebaum. Otherwise why on earth would you bother to write such a lengthy, twisted, almost "legal-brief" like argument opposing her brilliant essay! Is such loyalty to trump and America's oligarchs really worth it?