In Paris, between the presidential election rounds, the highly intelligent editor of a highly conservative magazine refused to concede the possibility of a victory for François Mitterrand on the ground that it would be contrary to the current of history.
It would be consoling if history were invariably kind to conservatives, but it is not. The wrong turn history took in 1917 is still with us, still leaving its trail of mass brutality and cultural barbarism. As for the present current, it is in reality a conflicting mass of cross-currents, dangerous to those caught up in them and disconcerting to observers.
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