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erronis

(15,389 posts)
Sun Jan 28, 2024, 01:24 PM Jan 2024

Tom Sullivan: "Harbingers of re-appearing tyranny"

https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/28/harbingers-of-re-appearing-tyranny/

Another well-thought opinion by Tom Sullivan - frequent contributor at Digbys blog.

Lincoln: “repulse them, or they will subjugate us”
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” Faulkner wrote in 1951. “Old times there are not forgotten,” wrote Daniel Decatur Emmett in “Dixie” a century earlier in 1859. “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” wrote somebody, but not likely Mark Twain.


With substantial quote from Heather Cox Richardson's post today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-27-2024


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