I have a beautiful Israeli friend who is the child of Holocaust survivors.  I grew up in the US.  We both moved to Canada in our 20s - for her this was the 1970s, and for me the 00s.  

I had to return to the US for family reasons just under a year ago.  I watched her cry as she discussed the stories from her mother in comparison to the maniacal hatred from the current US right.  She was the first to tell me this is no longer hyperbole - her words were “this is where Hitler came from.”

Despite everything happening in Israel, this friend checks in on me weekly as she fears she knows where the US is going.