🌿Epilogue: If We Only Knew

🌿Epilogue: If We Only Knew

✍️Author’s Note
This epilogue was written as a sober reminder that the warnings of history are not abstract. From Weimar to McCarthy, from Franklin’s caution to our present moment, the erosion of democracy follows a familiar path. If We Only Knew was once a question — today it is an indictment.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

— Robert M. Hutchins

James Comey standing in court is not the drama of justice but the theatre of revenge. Once a republic begins prosecuting its political opponents, the transition to autocracy is no longer hypothetical — it has begun.

We have seen this before. Weimar Germany collapsed not with a single blow, but with steady legal manipulations, purges, and the transformation of law into an instrument of fear. McCarthy’s America showed how hysteria and false charges could poison a democracy from within. And Franklin’s warning — “A Republic, if you can keep it” — has never rung louder.

Project 2025 is nothing less than a manual for dismantling the American republic. It proposes loyalty tests, political purges, and the conversion of federal agencies into tools of obedience. ICE and Homeland Security are to become the modern stormtroopers of executive will. The judiciary, already bent, is to be broken.

If we only knew was once a reflection on lost warnings. Now it is an accusation: we have been warned by history, by our own past, by the crumbling of others. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. Complacency is no longer neutrality. To stand aside is to collaborate.

[Read: If We Only Knew → If We Only Knew  ]

[Read: Echoes of History →Echoes of History: From Weimar to Washington ]

WJJH, October 2025

📌Blog Description
An epilogue to If We Only Knew: the sight of James Comey in court signals more than a trial — it marks the corrosion of justice into vengeance. With Project 2025 poised to weaponize the state, America risks repeating the darkest lessons of history.