“It’s going to run and run…”

At The Cedar Lounge Revolution, WorldbyStorm has been watching the Seán Russell statue

It’s not that the Nazi connection isn’t problematic, but in the context of the narrowness and arguably insularity of the strand of Republicanism that Russell came from it’s hardly unexpected that he would have had no grasp of the larger picture that his actions could be seen within. That’s not much of an excuse, though.

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