“‘We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.’ Benito Mussolini”


– Texas’ own U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who had D.C. and Twitter mighty puzzled on Sunday with his social media shout-out to Il Duce

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