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Let Them Eat Cake Katie Phang Oct 11 “Let them eat cake.” It is almost universally thought that Marie Antoinette said the above quote in response to her subjects’ suffering. But surprise! She apparently never said it. No matter. Every schoolchild forced to take European history knows the story anyway: A queen so out of touch with her starving subjects that she tells them to swap bread for tastier carbs with money they don’t have. Her (not historically accurate) advice was not well-received and Marie? Well, she lost her title and her head for it. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I bring up dear Marie because there’s a new version of the story playing out in the towns and cities in Europe as I write this Substack. Simultaneously, in the US almost every Republican attack ad playing on TV or the radio this election has some version of “[insert name] is a socialist!” This time it has nothing to do with ...

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