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'Gaslit' By Watergate and Trump's Sedition

'Gaslit' By Watergate and Trump's Sedition

50 years later, insights into history and current events

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Jim Buie
Jun 12, 2022
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'Gaslit' By Watergate and Trump's Sedition
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Dear Readers,

History often hangs on slender threads. Unchecked political power corrupts. People can become truly intoxicated and drunk with blind ambition for power until held to account by truth-tellers. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme, as Mark Twain quipped.

Those were some of my observations as I watched the opening hearing on…

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