David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

@anneapplebaum In her novella "Autres Temps," Edith Wharton tells the story of Mrs. Lidcote, who is exiled from New York's high society in disgrace because she divorced her husband sometime in the 1880s. 2/x https://t.co/GBaSfGW7IF https://t.co/efjLpdACe2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Powerful by @anneapplebaum - and I'd throw in another literary reference alongside hers to "The Scarlet Letter" 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

A growing atmosphere of mob justice in America is producing the kind of self-censorship found in an authoritarian r… https://t.co/7Z2IFvJx1K

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@anneapplebaum Then history repeats itself. Sometime in the mid-1910s (the novella was published in 1916), Mrs. Lidcote's daughter Leila divorces her husband. Mrs Lidcote rushes home from European banishment to stand with her daughter against the impending social catastrophe ... 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2021