But truly, we are not too distant in spatio-temporal terms from the 1650s political and social alchemy. A man who has great affinities with Machiavelli and Musolini, he is much like the proverbial cat with nine lives. Many people have an excessively-exaggerated view of his ability to weather any situation or to turn stone to bread. This class today can defend any wrong so long as they are positioned to benefit the class or its leading lights. It is such that those who condemned what was wrong yesterday are up in arms to defend that self-same wrong today.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2023 03:34 UTC