Is America a museum society?
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![Tenth Communist Party USA convention in Chicago. Portraits of Lincoln, Lenin and Stalin flanked the stage, while the Party's leader spoke, May 1938. [1000 x 786] : r/HistoryPorn](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QU0a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6000b117-3327-45c3-867e-a31f642ba83d_640x503.jpeg "Tenth Communist Party USA convention in Chicago. Portraits of Lincoln, Lenin and Stalin flanked the stage, while the Party's leader spoke, May 1938. [1000 x 786] : r/HistoryPorn")
It is a common insult hurled by American commentators of a ‘Cernovich’ stripe that Europe is a ‘museum society.’ Before we proceed further, we should note that many generations of Americans have been…
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