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0 pointsvarjag1y ago0 comments

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.

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qgin1y ago· 1 in thread

Agreed, 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.

hindsightbias1y ago

Senator 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.

ineedaj0b1y ago· 1 in thread

i 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

varjagOP1y ago

There are so many striking dissimilarities with Reagan admin on all but a handful policy directions that it can't serve as a parallel.

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