He is correct when he writes, "
To compare anything that has transpired in the past few years to this cataclysmic upheaval represents a spectacular lack of understanding about American history."
A historian explains the huge mistake people make about U.S. politics in 2020https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/a-historian-explains-the-huge-mistake-people-make-about-u-s-politics-in-2020/This leaves me thinking: How are things similar between today and the 1860's, how are they different, and what does it matter? And are we headed towards the kind of division that led to a civil war back then?