Quotable: A gentle reminder from Tommy Douglas, our Greatest Canadian…

…which will be timely not only here, but south of the 49th Parallel and across the Atlantic and Pacific, too:

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It’s also a useful corrective for those who insist that the problem is that there are “too many definitions” of fascism, and that if some particular fascist doesn’t tick all the boxes, he couldn’t possibly BE one. That error has let far too many of them slip by unchallenged, including the latest one in the US of Amnesia. Tommy accurately diagnosed the disease by looking at its root cause, not its symptoms.

You would be well advised to do the same.

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