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Trains, plains and escalators

20 January 2021

5:00 PM

20 January 2021

5:00 PM

Vladimir Lenin once said that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. The events two weeks ago in Washington DC suggest that in the remaining hours until, and possibly days after the inauguration of President Joseph Biden, there may in fact be decades. 

The last assault on the American Constitutional order led to a civil war.

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