Commentary The common refrain that those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it seems more and more relevant by the day. Each news cycle brings new stories that ring with dangerous echoes from the past. Last month I spoke of the events in Germany that bear eerie similarities to a darker era in that nation’s past. Last week, however, yet another European nation has displayed symptoms from some of the more tragic days of its history. In a recent interview, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, said that the French people who have refused to get vaccinated are an existential threat to the rest of the nation and that such “irresponsible people are no longer citizens.” When met with the considerable backlash his statements rightfully brought, he defended himself and dismissed concerns of despotism by saying that, “People can get upset about a way of speaking that seems …