Great read by Derek Scally in Saturday #IrishTimes

I have read this over several times, and went down a rabbit hole of Gasset's century old writing.

"Trump’s second coming has echoes of a century ago and Yeats’s warning ‘the centre cannot hold’ "

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/2025/01/11/is-the-west-experiencing-just-another-swing-of-the-political-pendulum-or-is-trump-20-a-sign-of-something-darker/
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