RT @petersagal@twitter.com

It's 2100. You're an associate professor of history at Olympus Mons Polytechnic, and have been asked to write the "Trump Era" section for a new history textbook for 8th graders and their synthetic equivalents. What's the first sentence?

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"During this era, significant long-standing structural and social problems within the United States were clearly exposed by a corrupt and incompetent leadership; the decades-long attack on social justice, respect of expertise, and government itself had come to its natural end."

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