When they needed to silence the voice of the resistance in the past, tyrants and fascists were willing to use torture and murder. Modern autocrats like to think of themselves as more sophisticated. So how, I wonder, would they like to go after Rachel Maddow?
I remember years ago going to the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, to look for the grave of Oscar Wilde. There were visitors, as there always are, and traces of lipstick. (There is a long tradition of planting a kiss on the statue on top of the grave, and you’re supposed to put on lipstick before you do it.
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