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No “Sunday Story” today – just a look at history, repeating, rhyming, dooming or just irrelevant.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teacher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I was a history teacher.\u00a0\u00a0One of the \u201cclassic\u201d reasons that I gave my students for learning history, is the \u201cpast is prologue\u201d to the future. For my middle schoolers, the line was simpler:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThose who don\u2019t know history are doomed to repeat it\u201d (George Santayana).\u00a0\u00a0It all came down to this:\u00a0\u00a0we’ve had problems before, and if we know how they tried to solve them; good or bad, right or wrong, effective or worthless; we can make better choices THIS time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My class didn\u2019t memorize dates.\u00a0\u00a0Even when I started teaching forty-six years ago, at the very beginnings of personal computers and before the cell phone, I didn\u2019t need my students to know the \u201cbig\u201d American dates (1620, 1776, 1801, 1861, 1929, 1941).\u00a0\u00a0What I did want them to know is the \u201cstory\u201d (his-story, now her-story as well; always our-story).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cstory\u201d of how guys like Jefferson lived with contradictions, balancing beliefs and principles against the economics of Southern life.\u00a0\u00a0Or the idea that compromise is as much a foundation of the Nation as is democracy.\u00a0\u00a0Or that, as Congressman James Clyburn likes to say so clearly, \u201cDon\u2019t let perfect be the enemy of good (Voltaire)\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mapping<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Past is prologue, but the past is not a \u201cscript\u201d that must be repeated.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, it\u2019s like that childhood warning:\u00a0\u00a0“Don\u2019t put your hand on the stove to see if it\u2019s hot.”\u00a0\u00a0America put its proverbial hand on the hot stove of history many times, and got burnt.\u00a0\u00a0We don\u2019t HAVE to do it again.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why we learn history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History is a guide, a map.  As a former backpacker, I knew how to read the detailed topographic maps that led across the wilderness that still makes up a lot of America (produced by the US Geological Survey, a government agency)<\/em>.  I could find the pathway across the mountains, even without a \u201cGPS\u201d (I used a compass, hand-held GPS didn\u2019t exist when I was hiking).  But I also realized that the map, like history, did not always \u201crepresent\u201d the real geography I was trying to cross.  Storms, floods, fires, \u201cprogress\u201d; all might alter the landscape, or even make the intended route impassable.  The map represented history, but history doesn\u2019t always define the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nixon?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So with all of that, are we repeating history in 2024?  Is this just a sequel to 1968<\/a>, a pivotal year in American politics?  Is the stage set, the script written?  The Democrats are going to Chicago, colleges campuses are filled with unrest, even Bobby Kennedy (this one alive and unhinged) is running as a candidate.  Has history already written the outcome, with Joe Biden filling both the Johnson and Humphrey roles, and Donald Trump channeling Richard Nixon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There certainly are similarities.\u00a0\u00a0There is a direct line from Nixon to Trump.\u00a0\u00a0Trump\u2019s original political mentor was Roy Cohn, advisor to the historic “king of misinformation\u201d, Senator Joe McCarthy of \u201cMcCarthyism\u201d fame. Nixon gained national prominence through McCarthyism.\u00a0\u00a0And when Cohn died of aids in 1986, Trump turned to a Nixon \u201cdirty-trickster\u201d as his political advisor, Roger Stone (who literally has Nixon\u2019s face tattooed to his back).\u00a0Nixon to Stone to Trump \u2013 a straight line of political immorality.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And while Trump never used the Nixon 1962 line; \u201cYou won\u2019t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore\u201d; he is a defeated President running for re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humphrey?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And Biden, is a President still seen as \u201cweak\u201d within his own Party, coming to Chicago with the Nation on the edges of two foreign wars, the Israeli debacle in Gaza, and the defense of Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Americans aren\u2019t dying in Vietnam, but Americans can literally watch Palestinians dying in Gaza on their phones.\u00a0\u00a0Is that the \u201cequivalent\u201d of watching Vietnam on the evening news with Cronkite or Huntley\/Brinkley?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democratic Party is divided between moderates and progressives, just as it was divided between pro-War and anti-War in 1968.\u00a0\u00a0But that\u2019s where the comparison ends.\u00a0\u00a0There is a division over the Israeli actions in Gaza, but it isn\u2019t the schism of 1968.\u00a0\u00a0Most, perhaps all, of the progressives of 2024, recognize that Biden isn’t “perfect”, but is “good”. And he’s definitely better than the Trump alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while Nixon was always kind of \u201cshady\u201d, he was not charged with crimes going into 1968.  He did not daily face felony charges, and wasn\u2019t the first Presidential candidate ever to look at a real chance of some kind of incarceration.  And all of that means that the deciding \u201ccenter\u201d of America has a lot more to think about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And finally there is the 1968 \u201cchaos\u201d factor.\u00a0\u00a0I watched the Democratic Party in Chicago unable to find common ground in 1968.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cestablishment\u201d Party of the President, Lyndon Johnson, was using the full force of law enforcement to \u201cput-down\u201d the opposition.\u00a0\u00a0The protestors in the street weren\u2019t just stopped or arrested, they were intentionally beaten.\u00a0\u00a0Mayor Daley made his message clear, \u201cnot in my city\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0And it\u2019s that \u201cpolice riot\u201d, combined with a party split down the middle, that made many Americans turn to a \u201cstable\u201d Republican candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the \u201cchaos\u201d factor today isn\u2019t the Democrats, it\u2019s the MAGA-Republicans.  The four years of Trump were years of American disarray both at home and abroad.  It culminated in a divisive and contradictory approach to a world pandemic.  Trump was for vaccination, but his followers were opposed.  Trump was for \u201cprevention\u201d, masks and distancing, until he was against it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Americans have walled off their memories of the Covid years, but with a little prodding, it all comes flooding back.  The Reagan question:  are you better now than you were four years ago, is easily answered.  Four years ago we were in the depths of the Covid epidemic.  Hundreds of thousands were already dead.  For the vast majority, we were NOT better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhymes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of history, there is an historic controversy over who said the phrase:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The quote is attributed to Mark Twain, but there is no written evidence that he actually said it.\u00a0\u00a0But it\u2019s something that Twain could have said, and it sounds like him.\u00a0\u00a0So, we give him credit, whether it\u2019s due or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are a Nation dramatically divided in 2024, just as we were a Nation divided in 1968.\u00a0\u00a0And, conveniently, there is college campus unrest, and the Democrats are meeting in Chicago this summer.\u00a0\u00a0So history \u201crhymes\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0But the issues of 1968 aren\u2019t the conflicts of 2024. Americans face an even more fundamental choice.\u00a0\u00a0Biden is no Bobby Kennedy (one of his heroes) but he\u2019s not Hubert Humphrey either.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s moving the Nation beyond the economic impact of Covid, and made fundamental changes in our infrastructure and in protecting the environment.\u00a0\u00a0More like 2020, when Biden seemed kind of a Democratic after-thought, the Party will likely walk out of the Chicago convention united.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Deal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And Trump is no Nixon.\u00a0\u00a0Nixon, as personally corrupted as he turned out to be, was still committed to the American experiment.\u00a0\u00a0When he lost a close election in 1960, he conceded with grace.\u00a0\u00a0And in modern terms, Nixon was far more \u201cmoderate\u201d than the current MAGA-Republican world allows.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparing Trump to Nixon isn\u2019t setting a very high bar.\u00a0\u00a0And Trump doesn\u2019t even reach that.\u00a0\u00a0While history may rhyme, there is no good historic analogy to 2024, even going back to the great schism of 1860.\u00a0\u00a0We face a new set of facts, a new set of lyrics to what sounds like a familiar tune.\u00a0\u00a0Some things rhyme, but 2024 presents the kind of crisis that nations\u2019 face once a century,\u00a0\u00a0or maybe once in history.\u00a0\u00a0As Joe Biden (no Mark Twain) said \u2013 it\u2019s a \u201cbig \u2018F-ing\u2019 Deal\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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