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An American Lament
trying to reverse the 'getting too old for this' mantra
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An American Lament

Over the Christmas break, my oldest daughter was home from law school.

Lincoln’s Warning, Historical Parallels, and America’s Polarized Present

Introduction

The wind came down over the Potomac and the light was hard.

The erosion of American democracy under the Trump administration —fragmented, fatalistic, and punctuated by the hollow refrain of institutional decay.

The men came in brown shirts first.