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The Fleming Foundation

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  1. Ken Rosenberger says:
    January 11, 2025 at 6:32 am

    A job well-done, gentlemen. Especially the insight provided into fascism. The most overused/wrongly used word in the world for many years is “fascist.” In the current zeitgeist, almost everyone, left, right, and in the middle, applies the term to that which they do not like.

    The HL Mencken quotation on democracy never gets old. The other one I recall is that “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” The late Neocon humorist (who wasn’t always a Neocon) P.J. O’Rourke once wrote of democracy that it meant, Majority rules, and you can’t always have majority rules. If you had majority rules all the time, every meal would be pizza. And hoi polloi relish a type of pizza far inferior to what Dr Fleming deems acceptable, I know that.

  2. Avatar photo Thomas Fleming says:
    January 13, 2025 at 4:36 pm

    I never got round to explaining the title, a play on Lorenzo il magnifico. In Italian the term can be taken literally, of course, for a big man who puts on a big show but it can also be used to identify a show-off blowhard.