That was a poem written by the Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoler in the form of a confession, expressing guilt for not doing more in the lead up to the Holocaust because he thought it wasn't his problem. It's very clear that what Alex is doing is he's hoping to evoke that here. But I'm very convinced he will never, ever, ever actually quote that poem. And that's because the first line is, quote, first they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Alex wants to co-opt the ever-resonant themes of this poem, but he'll never talk about what the poem actually says because, well, he's kind of invested in the enterprise of coming for the socialists. The next stanza is about coming for the trade unionists, which again, Alex would be on the side actively opposing the unions. Well, yeah. He wants to evoke the imagery and the feeling of that poem, but not the specifics of it, which is fine.