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Book-Burning, Trump’s Torchbearers & Reading Donald Duck: ARIEL DORFMAN in Informed Comment

Sunday, September 17th, 2017

The organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville last month knew just what they were doing when they decided to carry torches on their nocturnal march to protest the dethroning of a statue of Robert E. Lee. That brandishing of fire in the night was meant to evoke memories of terror, of past parades of hate and aggression by the Ku Klux Klan in the United States and Adolf Hitler’s Freikorps in Germany.

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