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7. Applebaum dropped a little literary reference

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Mon Aug 18, 2025, 12:27 PM

Aug 2025

"...observe the intertwining elements of tragedy and farce"

"First as tragedy, then as farce" is one of Marx's most quoted statements. The history of Trump's presidential terms may be inverting that to "First as farce, then as tragedy".

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