(AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman) While I consider myself to be somewhat of a history buff — I lack the extensive amount of historical knowledge and incisive perspective of, say Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Maxine Waters, of course — but I do know a fair amount about quite a bit of historical “stuff.” But, Dean Alfange, not so much. Until this morning. Alfange, a “progressive” of his era and a labor activist, wrote 163 words, in the form of a letter, 70 years ago that was first published in Reader’s Digest in 1952. As described by The National Pulse, Alfange was a liberal commentator who had a number of aborted runs for public office who wrote some of the most important words in modern American political discourse. “Words that should have an impact,” The Pulse noted, “as we evaluate the totalitarian approach the Western world has undergone in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”