ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Trump can only lose in his war against history and awareness
A rogue’s gallery of leaders are being forced into a reckoning with their countries’ past
06 September 2023 - 05:00
Former US president Donald Trump is more important than he might imagine. If that seems hard to believe, I will explain.
There’s something befuddling, yet fulfilling, about watching history flow back and forth, a bit like the Tonlé Sap, a Cambodian lake on the Mekong River, which recurrently flows backwards before returning forward. Viewed as a whole, the details of the waterway are less important than the system. ..
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