The Mazeppist

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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Saturday, July 09, 2011

Sidney Blumenthal's Unintentional Prophecy From 2008

The GOP on the verge of imploding

The key (i.e., prophetic) sentence: "Just as the Republican collapse under Bush has given the Democrats an unprecedented opening, the Democrats may still find a way to reinvent the Republicans."

I doubt that, when Sidney Blumenthal uttered this prophecy, he imagined that the Democrats would "reinvent the Republicans" by BECOMING THE REPUBLICANS.

As I like to tell my students, if you want to be an historian, you must develop a keen sense of irony. Otherwise, the joke will be on you.

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