One of the few remarks worth quoting from Karl Marx is this observation, loosely translated: History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Marx intended that as applicable to historical figures as exemplars, specifically in the fall of France’s Second Republic and the rise of Napoleon III in an 1851 coup d’etat.
That makes today’s Axios report on Marx’s intellectual heirs all the more hilarious. It seems that progressives want to launch Resistance 2.0 now that Donald Trump has won a decisive election, but the form of this resistance is, um … to not show up to Trump’s inauguration.
Wow! That’ll hurt his feelings, for sure. And the scale of this resistance is, well …
More than a dozen congressional Democrats plan to sit out President-elect Trump’s inauguration, and many more are anxiously grappling with whether to attend,…
