What Will History Books Say About 2018?

How will history remember this wild year? Which events were significant and which were distractions? POLITICO Magazine asked the smartest historians we know to put all that happened over the past 12 months in its proper historical context—by literally writing the paragraph that history books of the future will include about 2018. Here’s what they had to say:

The year of distraction
The end of American exceptionalism
When we saw the fault lines after the earthquake
The decline of America’s dominance
A Manichean year of rage and violence
The fight between authoritarianism and democracy
The year of cruelty
Liberal democracy vs. Trumpism

[link:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/28/what-will-history-books-say-about-2018-223561|

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What Will History Books Say About 2018? (Original post)	Soph0571	Dec 2018	OP
We lost damn near everything.	akraven	Dec 2018	#1
"president for life trump	rampartc	Dec 2018	#2
For some unexplained reason...	kentuck	Dec 2018	#3
Constant chaos	Sucha NastyWoman	Dec 2018	#4
They will wonder	Polly Hennessey	Dec 2018	#5
There was a Blue Wave as voters took back control of House of Representatives	wishstar	Dec 2018	#6
Actually, we won't know for a while.	MineralMan	Dec 2018	#7
They'll say	Brawndo	Dec 2018	#8

Response to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2018, 06:25 AM

akraven (1,975 posts)

1. We lost damn near everything.

But we'll get it back. I'm in a "Red Dawn" mood about sTrump!

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 06:49 AM

rampartc (4,752 posts)

2. "president for life trump

purged his party of non believers as he continued to maga."

unless we work hard enough to defeat this authoritarian and his followers forever.

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 06:55 AM

kentuck (108,527 posts)

3. For some unexplained reason...

The Legislature of the government sat back and did nothing as our government was demolished?

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 07:59 AM

Sucha NastyWoman (2,516 posts)

4. Constant chaos

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 09:24 AM

Polly Hennessey (5,263 posts)

5. They will wonder

how we let this happen. They will shake their heads at our stupidity and our lack of courage to stand up to the Idiot. If they suffer for our inability to rid ourselves of the Trump pestilence, we will always be viewed as the enablers of a Malignant/Malevolent Grifter.

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Sat Dec 29, 2018, 09:52 AM

wishstar (4,981 posts)