My revised reply to Niall Ferguson

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Don’t need Roth’s weak parable starring the nearly unseen Lindbergh, heavy melodrama allied to an authorial nostalgia, as teetering armature! You’re not old enough to recall Jimmy Stewart in that 1957 blockbuster apologia for Lucky Lindy, directed by Billy Wilder? I’m tired of Republicans of all stripes condemnation of fascist bully boy Trump, he’s all yours, from the ‘Generation of Treason’ to capo Karl Rove: a culmination not an aberration. The really unpleasant truth is hard to face, for a Party whose raison d’etre is political nihilism. Neo-Cons,No-Nothings,Theocrats,Dixiecrats and Free Market Grandees, better knows as thieves.  ‘At long last sir, have you no shame?’

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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