Somebody needs to do a take on "the writers" and the craziness of insisting on history as narrative.
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Indeed, the smart, erudite people making "narratology" and "historicity" jokes are desperate for a brilliant historian to construct a plausible "Age of Trump" narrative *in real time*. Their interpretive gifts are contemporaneously failing them.
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To chime in on this: I think historians are painfully aware that our existing historical narratives are inadequate to understand Donald Trump. Maybe not "Trumpism," but certainly Donald Trump the person.
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