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I know people love to describe future events in terms of past events but am afraid America is heading in a direction entirely orthogonal to its history.
by varjag 2y ago
I know people love to describe future events in terms of past events but am afraid America is heading in a direction entirely orthogonal to its history.
- ineedaj0b 2y agoi read a lot of history especially US, i don't think so at all. the reawakening? prohibition? you should definitely see the Reagan admin as a parallel
- varjag 2y agoThere are so many striking dissimilarities with Reagan admin on all but a handful policy directions that it can't serve as a parallel.
- qgin 2y agoAgreed, if you could show Americans from the 1950s what’s going on today with MAGA etc, I imagine most of it would consider it very alien.
- hindsightbias 2y agoSenator McCarthy/Roy Cohn and the John Birch Society might like a word. Just replace commie with liberal/progressive/marxist/socialist. Roy Cohn was Don's business mentor.