2. Lionel Trilling, writing in the 1940s, said in the age of Stalin & Hitler, Tacitus' account of Roman tyranny took on a new life.
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C'mon. You follow the guy. You really think he's uninterested in history.
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this is more of an autobiography--history has always been relevant. Perhaps it just started mattering to you
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Perhaps. But remarkable that Obama's "liberal" policies hardly ever inspired this level of historical comparisons...?
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Hmm. I saw Obama's admin differently, given profusion of work on panopticonism a la Benthem & Foucault. Also wrt race.
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hopefully he will make sanity relevant again
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That's a good point.
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Then why can't people seem to remember the previous 7 years of trumps birtherism. It's like it never existed.
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My premise is that people are using historical analogies to avoid talking about actual recent & current racism.
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