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by doktrin 4491 days ago
> Perkins is right. The closest parallel to the mindless, hate-drenched opprobrium of these people is Nazi Germany turning on the Jews

This perverse non-analogy is an embarrassment. It reads like absurd satire. Please stop repeating it.

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Sorry, no, it does have merit. In both cases, a failure of popular economic intelligence lead or is leading to self-defeating national attitudes and policies, driven in both cases by misattributed resentment.