BARRY MEHLER’S WORDS ring in my ears. ‘I have a lot of relatives who survived the Holocaust,’ the historian told me. ‘They are prepared for things to cease to be normal very quickly because that was their experience.’ I never imagined I might live through times that could make me feel this way, that could leave me dangling on a precipice afraid for my future. Politics is moving at such breakneck speed, taking such random turns, anything seems possible, and the worst of things feels likely. It’s the suddenness of it all that makes it so strange. The cancerous surge in nationalism and racism
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