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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.

Madeleine Albright

In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Election Experience Search Word
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Democracy Government
The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Beginning Human Issue
This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Character Reputation Yourself
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy

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