America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?
By Victor Davis Hanson
The American Descent into Madness › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
"Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession was taboo to visions of killing the greatest number of their fellow citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Mao’s China went from a failed communist state to the ninth circle of Dante’s Inferno, when he unleashed the Cultural Revolution in 1966."
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