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eppur_se_muova

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3. If you've ever wondered about the phrase ...

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2019, 09:59 AM

May 2019

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel", this is what it means.

45 is asking people to suffer unnecessary losses for his destructive trade "policy*" by saying it's the patriotic thing to do. The very incarnation of the cliche.

*Technically, not so much a policy, as a protracted hissy-fit.

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