advises<\/a> in Salon, “or “prepare to lose again.”<\/p>\n“Thomas Jefferson, the founding father President Trump likened to Robert E. Lee with little public objection, once wrote, ‘knowledge is the currency of democracy.’ America is bankrupt.<\/p>\n
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“The liquidation resulting from decades of uninterrupted perversion of language and degradation of discourse affects not only the intellect, but also ethics.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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