Werner Herzog
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give a blueprint to the Americans how to handle their educational system.
And you don't tell the Japanese how to deal with their education or the Italians or the – you just name it.
You just don't do it.
You have to come with your cultural, historical identity.
You will come to your conclusions.
But of course, Germany was consistent in it from the end of the Second World War until literally today.
And it's not only education, it's translated into legislation.
For example, it is a criminal offense to be a denier of Holocaust.
If you're a fervent denier and go to public as a denier of the Holocaust, you will end up in jail in Germany.
And I think it's good that it is like this.
I mean it in a larger context, of course.
I mean what you're hinting at politically.
And I try to encourage all my friends who are not Trump supporters, I tell them, don't complain.
It is a majority.
It's not lottery that brought Trump to the presidency.
He won the popular vote by a very significant margin.
Both houses, Senate and Congress, and the Supreme Court is to some degree shaped by him.
So it's significant.
It doesn't come because he's a lucky man.