‘All great world-historic facts and personages appear … twice … the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce’, wrote Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.
The Reichstag fire, Hitler’s justification for dictatorship, was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, while Nancy Pelosi used the Capitol riot as the basis for the Republic’s most farcical impeachment.
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