Either a Free Republic, or Versailles. Never the Twain shall Coexist."They prefer the tyrants because that’s what they aspire to themselves. They hate the messiness of our fractious society and they don’t think much of our ability to make good decisions for ourselves, so they just tell us what to do and defy us to beat them. Just like the foreign tyrants do."
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Back then — we’re talking mid-to-late seventies — the hot topic was “Eurocommunism.” An amazing number of highbrows were convinced that Western Communists, such as the Italians, were capable of being democratic, pro-NATO, and even anti-Soviet. The unfortunate Zbig was one of them, as were almost all the “scholars” at Harvard gathered around Stanley Hoffmann.
Yep. I remember well those days. Italy (and Portugal, too), came quite close to tipping over in those dark days of Carteresque malaise.
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