Oof. If we apply this lens to American political history, a lot of stuff we'd prefer not to see comes into very sharp focus.
The connection between 2000 and 2016 is obvious. The relevance of 1965 to that equation deserves far more attention.
I’m going to want to do a thread on this later, but the core question can be phrased this way: of the above three years, which was the aberration?
