“The historian #BarbaraTuchman once described four kinds of #misgovernment that stem from a leader’s hubris: tyranny, excessive ambition, incompetence, and “folly”—the pursuit of policies contrary to the nation’s interests. Khamenei’s Islamic Republic has checked every box.”

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A quotation from Richard Hooker

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1, ch. 1 (1594)

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