Keep calm and carry on

To prepare for war with Nazi Germany, the British government considered how to maintain civilian morale should events go badly. Among other things, it printed more than two million posters with the slogan “Keep calm and carry on.” Although they were never issued, copies are available wherever good refrigerator magnets are sold. That slogan is apt today for those of us in the former colonies facing our own existential crisis — the presidential candidacy of a man with no more…

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