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A brief thought on "bend the knee"

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Carl Beijer
Feb 24, 2020
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Lots of complaining online these days about "bend the knee" - a slogan popularized among socialists by Will Menaker as a jab at recalcitrant right-wing Democrats. Like most of these controversies, this one has stayed at the juvenile level where belligerent liberals insist that socialists should be less belligerent, and socialists cry hypocrisy; nothing …

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