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Our democracy’s history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate — people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says democracy's record holds many forgotten figures who blocked progress while shielding the powerful. Their charge is that some senators, by a Wednesday vote, have earned a place among them, condemned to the same unremembered and uncelebrated verdict.
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