Many have suggested that Le Pen's views are reminiscent of Hitler's, and that the Front's ultranationalist agenda resembles the early sentiments of Hitler's National Socialist Party and may signal a return to the time of Vichy.
"I Hope Like Heck," by Michael Solomon, grew out of a notion first explored by Hart Seely at Slate just six weeks after Palin was tapped as John McCain's show-stealing sidekick, and included her early sentiments on reporters, Washington outsiders, McCain's "verbiage," and this, on "small mayors": You know, Small mayors, Mayors of small towns — Quote, unquote — They're on the front lines.
In the ensuing decades, his early sentiments of alienation slowly faded and were replaced by a sense of belonging.
There's an earlier sentiment that still rings true, as well.
Yet since Ostpolitik in the 1970s and reunification in 1990 the earlier sentiment has returned".Germany has never figured out whether it wants to be part of the West," says John Kornblum, a former American ambassador to Germany who is now a lawyer in Berlin.
"You can talk about the problems," Rus says, slightly modifying her earlier sentiment, "but not the solutions".
After watching director Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated trilogy-capper, and even after appreciating a great many things about it, I still stand by that earlier sentiment.
I can't help wondering how much those events and Batman's statement came back to haunt him in The Dark Knight, and whether the end of the film is meant as a very clear rebuttal to his earlier sentiment.
