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Michael Guenon's avatar

It is extremely difficult to find a starting point. My wife and I are out joining the local protests. I see the distinction between agonistic and antagonistic but then look at someone like Noem, for example. She is both a stupid flunky and a weaponized tool of an effort to destroy a constitutional order. Banality of evil with Botox and hair extensions? “Liberate” Los Angeles from its socialist government? It’s gibberish. She wouldn’t even field a question from one of my duly elected senators but instead he was manhandled to the floor and handcuffed. My sentiment is I want the bitch gone—that’s the voice in my head.

Interestingly, at a recent library sale, I found Ignazio Simone’s “The School for Dictators” (1938). Pulled it off the shelf and started reading.

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Douglas Giles's avatar

I can recommend Vaclav Havel's The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

"Banality of evil with Botox and hair extensions." Good one.

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Michael Guenon's avatar

Had great respect for Havel.

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