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Seventy-seven years ago, Nehru, in a sweltering Constituent Assembly hall in Delhi, had prefaced the lines borrowed by Mamdani with one of the most stirring openings in history: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially."

Its opening words say: “All legislative powers ... shall be vested” in Congress, and the elected representatives “shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposes and excises.”

“This too shall pass. So I will continue doing this work on behalf of the American people”

“Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so,” he said.

In a delirious tweet-storm last week that began with an especially idiotic misreading of “Lord of the Rings” as a right-wing warmonger fable — the gentle hobbits “were able to live their lives in peace and tranquility, but only because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor” — Musk then turned to “the tide of illegal immigration” and an apocalyptic warning: “It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die.”