Gusanos of Monarchy: War, Exile, and the Misplacement of a Nation

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil

– Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)

There is a word from another revolution that fits a little too well in this time: gusano—the exile who leaves a revolution only to spend decades begging Empire to bring them back. It belongs to Cuba, but its logic has migrated. You can now find it, almost intact, among a certain...