Teaching is Not Learning
History has much to teach us if we are only willing to listen. In the words of one observer of the events in the streets of Paris in February 1848, political unrest is always the same. It is “initiated by simpletons, helped along by fools, pushed through by rogues then taken over by the opportunists who do very nicely out of it.”
It doesn’t take a huge imagination to see this same formula played out in the events of January 6 and those events that have followed since.