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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?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1250819770867482624
@jakebe "There was no honor here."
@ElectricKeet @jakebe "As we look back at the events that heralded the end of Pax Americana, please remember that we study these events not to glorify them, but to pay our respect to all those who suffered through them first-hand and, hopefully, to appreciate how far we've come as a society since then."
"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."