Excuses, Excuses
Americans are forgetting how to accept electoral defeat
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5 min readNov 14, 2020
It has become a fad recently to find echoes of America’s religious past in its current politics. Well, the last fortnight has reminded me of nothing so much as the event known as “The Great Disappointment.”
On October 22, 1844, a major movement known as the Millerites — after William Miller, a Baptist preacher with a…
