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The Woman With the Cure by Lynn Cullen

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‘San Antonio, with 30 cases, had a bad case of polio jitters. Nationally, the incidence of infantile paralysis, 813 cases, was up almost 17 percent over last year. But the only state in which the disease had reached epidemic proportions ...more

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“have thus looked away from a very old threat suddenly staring us in the face again, the threat that Alexander Hamilton warned us of in Federalist No. 1: the threat of an opportunistic demagogue unleashing a violent mob and primitive impulses against the Constitution to override the political and constitutional infrastructure of representative democracy. The demagogue panders to the negative emotions of the crowd, pretending to be the champion of the people, only to wage war against the Constitution, the legal order, and the democratic political process, all of which belong to the people. He starts as a “demagogue,” one who knows how to whip up the crowd into a mob”
― Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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“whip up the crowd into a mob frenzy, but ends as a “tyrant,” a ruler who uses his power to oppress the people, Hamilton said.”
― Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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