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I often say that Frank Fukuyama’s big mistake in his “The End of History” <https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184> was believing that fascism had died at the hands of the Red Army in the rubble of Berlin in 1945. Yet at the same time Frank was writing, Isaiah Berlin was undertaking one of his expeditions into the intellectual milieu of Saint Petersburg in the 1800s, and finding there what we now recognize as what we now see revived as Trumpism:

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