what is the year on that tocqueville quote? it looks like a still from VHS
EDIT:
Thinking about that time in 1998 when former Iranian President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami assumed that most Americans have read Alexis de Tocqueville. This is the polite Persian shade we love to see lmao
what is the year on that tocqueville quote? it looks like a still from VHS
EDIT:
https://xcancel.com/AsadFromNYC/status/1279486891981668352
I have to imagine he was being at least a little facetious, right? Surely he didn’t actually believe that.
yeah it seems like a backhanded way to say the opposite
ah shit i’m dumb, i thought that was recent (since the start of the war with iran) and unironic