• Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I feel like I never saw headlines like these before Trump. Trump was president and then every week some paper was like "Historian appears out of a dense fog to prognosticate on the downfall of America." As if 'historian' was suddenly a respected profession that served as advisors to the powerful.

    Course, even if that were true, I'm sure it's a bad joke. No doubt these are Ivy League dupes so thoroughly propagandized that they're less historian and more illiterate priest, rotely repeating memorized scripture they never understood.

    • bayezid [any]
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      2 years ago

      My thoughts exactly.

      Really curious what type of history these guys are writing. I'm assuming it's not particularly dense.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Idk even our leftist history buffs are all soundly set on the idea that we’re on the cusp of something new in America. Like sure we might not be losing American democracy tomorrow (because what democracy lmfao) but it definitely feels like this system has reached its end conclusion and will just remain gridlocked until something ruptured through and a new formation arrives. Trump just gets blamed because he pulls the mask off the facade but this crisis started under Obama if not originating in the 08 crash