Clarence Page: History is flexible for Trump’s MAGA troops
I used to believe, as George Santayana is said to have said, “Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” Nowadays, amid culture wars and the rise of former — and possibly future — President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, Santayana’s sentiment might as well be “If you don’t like history, rewrite it.” That’s what House Republicans tried to do recently. With a ...
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 30, 2023
3 minutes
I used to believe, as George Santayana is said to have said, “Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”
Nowadays, amid culture wars and the rise of former — and possibly future — President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, Santayana’s sentiment might as well be “If you don’t like history, rewrite it.”
That’s what House Republicans tried to do recently. With a breathtaking disregard for the history that
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