,
4 tweets,
1 min read
Read on Twitter
This alert—with the word “purge” being used to describe what the president would like to due to a security structure he perceives as not being tough enough—is really startling when you’ve spent the last week reading about the Stalinist Purges of the 1930s. nyti.ms/2UpVQGS?smid=n…
Those purges, I might add, we’re carried out to consolidate power in the hands of one man (Stalin) so that his directives could be carried out without political or legal resistance inside the system.
I’ll also add that history doesn’t actually repeat itself, but sometimes things remind you of other things and a comparative approach to history is often fruitful.
*were, not we’re (damn autocorrect)
