It's a fucking embarrassment to the historical profession that Jill Lepore keeps wielding the term "history" like this in deeply muddled, confused, and short-sighted op-eds. "Let history, not partisans, prosecute Trump"https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/truth-reconciliation-tribunal-trump-historians/2020/10/16/84026810-0e88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html?tid=ss_tw …
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It's not entirely clear what she's arguing here - that the basic institutions of the US suffice to deal with the fallout from the Trump era, that the impulse to punish wrongdoing is actually bad in itself, or that truth and reconciliation commissions are not ideal.
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