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Surely, when a lexicon of autocratic government is printed by some future Newspeak Foundation, one of the prize entries will be on the political rally. Democracies may have many deficiencies, but rarely do they stoop to so ham-fisted a gesture as a mass demonstration in favor of a government.

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