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Meg Fox's avatar

Ken, this is so cogent and clarifying-- brilliant, and properly fierce. Horrifying and frightening. Steinbeck wrote East of Eden in the midst of the McCarthy witchhunts, probably feeling a lot of the anger we are feeling now. It's the bullies' playbook. Calling it out as you do is crucial to being able to resist.

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Janine Zacharia's avatar

I have been wondering if a Hobbesian state of nature is where we're headed or where we already are.

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bill johnston's avatar

well said - we will run out of alphabet - Make America Sick Again, Make American Vulnerable Again [to foreign enemies], Make America Isolationist Again, .... one could go on allday

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