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Bozvotros

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2. Sinclair Lewis in 1935 had something to say about this regime
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 12:31 PM
Mar 2025

"The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store.
Certainly there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of a windmill.

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