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Anne Applebaum: Evil ideas never really die

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Trump and Moore think they can win power by appealing to the white-supremacist minority and offending the rest.

Face masks depicting former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Donald Trump hang on sale hours before Donald Trump is to be sworn in as president of the United States, at a souvenir street shop in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Nothing is ever over. No historic trauma is ever resolved. No historic villain is ever buried, and no historic lessons are permanently learned. Everything and everyone can be revived, and anything can be unlearned — even in the most settled civilizations.