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Journeyman

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4. I think it's important, too, for people to remember the future isn't written yet . . .
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 05:04 AM
Jan 2025

and there's just as much evidence which points to Reichwing failure as predicts our democracy's demise.

We need to keep in mind, as we mull the possibility of Trump et al reconstituting the Nazi dreams, that of the four charges levied at Nuremberg, the hardest to prove were the conspiracy charges. And not just because of the complexity of the Nazi regime, or the difficulty of showing clear connections between the myriad defendants. The very nature of human actions and the vagaries of intention and fate are always at play, and as Bobby Burns reminds us, "the best-laid plans o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley."

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