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Since Donald Trump’s rise to political power in this country, the famous poem cautioning that the horrors of autocracy would extend to the entire nation of Germany, Pastor Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came,” has gotten quite a bit of mileage in the United States. While meant to be a warning that brutality, cruelty, and lawlessness extended toward some would not end with those first targeted, there have always been a few problems with the Niemöller poem. On Thursday, when the Trump administration targeted former FBI Director James Comey for a political prosecution that wasn’t even pretending to be anything other than spurious and malicious—just two weeks after rem

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