Assuming that modern American politics are a direct 1:1 comparison with politics that happened a century ago, a continent away, in a radically different economy, in a system with fundamentally different electoral rules, is one of the most frustrating parts of the left.
History is often informative, but a core philosophical component of any branch of leftism is that we are not bound to repeat the mistakes of the past.
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Assuming that modern American politics are a direct 1:1 comparison with politics that happened a century ago, a continent away, in a radically different economy, in a system with fundamentally different electoral rules, is one of the most frustrating parts of the left.
History is often informative, but a core philosophical component of any branch of leftism is that we are not bound to repeat the mistakes of the past.