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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Writing at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Andrew Sillen tells of hearing a most disturbing rhyme echoing from time spent teaching in apartheid South Africa. A nugget:

GOP rhetoric now incorporates the tool kit of despots: mythology, dissembling, demonization, hysteria, and loyalty tests. All are familiar, and the result of the same calculation made by much of South Africa’s white population: that democracy itself was an existential threat, and therefore in defense of familiar prerogatives, anything was fair game.

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*Mark Twain.

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