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In 1991 Professor Harry Jaffa gave a speech in which he predicted the current Leftist craziness with scary accuracy.  At a time when the Left and much of the Right were celebrating "the end of history" brought about by Reagan's victory in the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Jaffa foresaw that while an important battle had been won, that the war was just shifting to a different and more treacherous phase.  He saw that friends of liberty would soon find the Left pursuing their same totalitarian goals but with different means and under different name.  I was a student of Jaffa's at the time and remember him both writing and delivering the speech which no one wanted to hear.  He was a lone voice crying in the wilderness.