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> Who made you the history police? You want to tell people not to pull down statues? I think you were the one who started ad hominem. I just suggested treating

• ggm 4y ago
  I think you wrote with more malign intent and used language to dismiss my comment. You're right: it IS an asinine comparison and said better by you, I might have acknowledged it. I've been assured by others I write ad hommy and I will take it on the chin, but I suggest you take that lesson too. You made a put down. You didn't reflect on any other part of what I said, you used "trope" as a dismissive, contextually put-down phrase. Historians in historiography debate the approach to the past. Framing the past in terms of present day issues is normal. Dreyfus echoed in French politics beyond the early 1900s and the path through Vichy, the pre Vichy antisemitic popular press, the popular front, postwar politics, right down to Le Pen is an example of there being no time contemporary politics in Europe is not heavily informed by the past. What has happened in America in the press and in the polity is going to echo in domestic and international politics for just as long. The one thing you cannot accuse Trump consistently of is Antisemitism. That aside parallels are everywhere.