Not doomed to repeat, but to be considered

Claire Wolfe, who represents a distinctly conservative but not Republican point of view, has an interesting recollection of how the experience of England’s authoritarian monarchs (which, by the way, seems to be a word with distinctly less negative inference than dictator while meaning essentially the same thing) led to parliamentary supremacy in that country.

We are no longer Englishmen and women, whatever our ancestry. We are not bound to repeat the same ways, but we take recognition of their experience in order to learn from it.