History is littered with the names of those who sought to seize power, but we really only remember those who succeeded. And it hasn’t stopped. We may think that despotism and land grabs are a thing of the past, but there are examples of it happening this very year.
All this and more on The Rabbit Hole: Politics and Prose, a LibertyNation.com production.
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PublishedOct 14, 2020
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