Trump’s farce of fascism

Equal parts comedy and tragedy, the Jan. 6 riot was the perfect capstone of a presidency as ludicrous as it was horrific.

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Karl Marx once wrote that all great people and events recur in history twice: “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” He was talking about Louis-Napoleon, the mediocre nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, but he…