Please, columnists and pop editorial writers, learn another plague to misuse and give medievalists a break from your nonsense.
It's more that these sorts of 'just so' historical analogies where the present moment is exactly like a specific past moment tend to be lazy and intellectually shallow. Past events are useful to think with, useful to compare with, but history doesn't repeat.
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I'd say it's more important to think historically, or to think *with* history about present events, than to try to engage in 1-to-1 comparisons with past events, as a lot of lazy 'new black death' articles (or a lot of 'Is America the new Rome' articles) often do.
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