Charlie rightly focuses on the massive moral failures surrounding the Holocaust. Perhaps an equally hard lesson to learn, in the sense of looking in the mirror, is that FDR's political realism about the nature of the American people was absolutely necessary. This would also seem to hold lessons for our time. We need desperately to put together a lasting coalition to defeat Trumpism. This means that compromise is the order of the day within that coalition. Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders make strange bedfellows. But this is what we need.