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History | U.S. Government & Politics | Practice | H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
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1. “In a democracy, each party devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party
is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed and are right.”
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– H. L. Mencken
Assume that the democracy Mencken refers to is the United States, and that “each party” refers to the Democrats
and the Republicans.
Write a short essay explaining and evaluating Mencken’s statement.
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