‘There’s no use trying,’ says Alice to the Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
No? Clearly Alice hadn’t met the modern leftist. Not that she needed to. She had the Queen with her who was straight out of the leftist playbook. Alice herself was one of those tiresome people who insist on proof before believing something but the Queen displays the blithe disregard for the facts that is de rigueur for the contemporary Left.
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