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The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability.

History is definitely repeating itself. It’s going to be a fun next four years.

There’s been quite a lot in part 2 that I can’t see how it’s necessary to include to tell this story (as it was in part 1). Maybe all the good editors died in WWII?

The structure of the first section has been quite poor so far. Most notably, she mentions The Dreyfus Affair dozens of times in the first three chapters yet never explains until chapter 4. There’s also quite a lot of repetition and stuff that really doesn’t matter.