Every child knows the fable of the scorpion who swears not to sting the frog who ferries him across a river — but unsheathes his poison at the end of the journey.
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“I thought you promised not to sting me!” the incredulous frog exclaims as he perishes.
“Well, you knew I was a scorpion,” the other responds.
Sen. Chuck Schumer seems unaware of the tale — and its lesson.
Leftist revolutions tend to eat their own: The French Revolution’s Maximilien Robespierre met the Jacobins’ guillotine, and Josef Stalin murdered the onetime allies who tried to moderate his fervor.
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