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Originally Posted by Ohio

History tells us that reformers are the enemy.

Especially those who plan to "drain the swamp."

Demagogues come to power by creating crises that only they (so they will say) can defuse. They're here to rescue us from ourselves. Lee was a master at this. The "storms" didn't weaken him; on the contrary they were the basis of purges and consolidations. The remaining sheep would huddle tightly around him, and the sheep-pen walls rose higher still.