Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 116 of Stephanie Slade’s excellent 2026 book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right [original emphasis]:

Soon enough, the [Berlin] wall would indeed come down. That is often thought of as the first domino to fall in Eastern Europe, but in fact, it occurred a few months after Poland held its first semi-free parliamentary elections in June 1989. Solidarity claimed 99 percent of the open seats, and Lech Walęsa went on to become president of a democratic Poland.