Russia and the former Eastern Bloc countries still bear some of those scars.
That the Republican Party is marching--resolutely and lemming-like--off a cliff in support of President Trump and his broad portfolio of delusions, is deeply sad; but they started that march long before the current administration.
Rather more terrifying is the implacable progress Republicans are making toward weaving their commitment to un-reality into regulations and laws.
Should we eventually get an infrastructure bill?
Banning the consideration of--or even the use of the phrase--"Climate Change" in permitting and planning, will not merely lead us to build Bridges to Nowhere.
Rather, we will be building bridges to Atlantis--where the shade of Trofim Lysenko will likely be the Minister of Aquaculture, and above which, no doubt, the Trumpist Nomenklatura fantasize they will float on their luxury yachts.
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