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It's hard to "like" this post. I've worried about the recent resurgence of calling strong, competent women "witches" for several weeks now. Very disturbing and unsettling.

I recently read Jonathan Healey's "The Blazing World," a history of 17th century England including the civil wars and the Puritan so-called "commonwealth." Healey includes a detailed discussion of the witch trials, so I am familiar with that story. (I may have some ancestors on my mother's side from Bury St. Edmonds as well.)

But I loved that Harris, in her CNN town hall a week ago Monday, the town hall that replaced the debate that had been scheduled but that Trump refused to attend, when asked about her faith, compared herself to Esther. If we need to identify politicians with a biblical archetype, Esther is a great fit for Harris, in my view.

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Thx Don. When I read your opening sentence it captured my feeling accurately.

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