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  1. Another banger of a passage from @sarahkendzior’s They Knew opens Chapter 4: bookshop.org/p/books/they-knew-how-a-culture-of-conspiracy-keeps-america-complacent-sarah-kendzior/17855878
    They say that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Since Americans spent centuries failing to learn from history, we get to repeat it all at once. The year is 2021 and we are living through simultaneous revivals of the worst of the American past: the Civil War, the Spanish Flu, the white mob violence of the 1919 Red Summer, the extreme wealth disparity of the Gilded Age, the fascist movements of the 1930s and 1940s, the Jim Crow era of voter suppression, the riots of the 1960s, the corruption of Watergate, the cover-ups of Iran-Contra.
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