America, the Roman Empire

Sat., Feb. 3, 2018

The end of the Roman Republic was an age, writes a historian, “in which a lie was not a lie if a man had the audacity to keep asserting that the lie was true.” This also describes Donald Trump and our age. Trump’s most audacious lie is that he is not a racist.

The quotation is from Mike Duncan, “The Storm before the Storm.”

Stephen Scott

Spokane

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