30 Dec 20
@sonhouse saidThis is an interesting topic. I think the occupation of 'historian' has changed a lot in the digital age. There's a massive abundance of information about Trump. A lot of it is currently in dispute and is likely to not be resolved to any reasonable degree of consensus. A single snippet of information has thousands of words written that either dismiss it as trivial or incorporate it into a grand money laundering conspiracy.
@Duchess64
You know good and well that was hyperbole. Historians will not treat him well and you know THAT full well too.
Historians are trained to research and re-research and confirm and counter-reference. But now we have everybody doing their own 'research'. The line blurs between opinion and fact. At the very least, we need a new generation of historians who are adept at navigating the digital world in quantitative ways. I'm not sure exactly how this looks, but I don't imagine historians are going to convince the Trump flag flyers that he played golf too often.
(btw what's up with the flags? I feel like a whole history book could be written about that. Has any other president had their own flag?)
30 Dec 20
@sonhouse saidI don't believe Trump will ever see the inside of a jail unless he is visiting someone.
@lemondrop
Hopefully it will be read on a prison supplied tablet.....
The thing I hope is his political power will go to near zero after January 20.
Especially considering his present state of his so called mind.
Word on the street is Trump may never come back to DC and good fukkking riddance.
They don't want him in New York and it seems he may not be able to actual ...[text shortened]... ach.
Maybe he will move to Moscow where he can be a talking head there bantering with Putin......
Biden may give him a pardon. Had you thought about that?
-VR
30 Dec 20
@wildgrass saidIt often takes 20-30 years to be able to assess major historical events with the necessary emotional detachment and factual objectivity. Reagan was wildly popular as president, but his foreign policy blunders have come into sharp focus only in the last twenty years
This is an interesting topic. I think the occupation of 'historian' has changed a lot in the digital age. There's a massive abundance of information about Trump. A lot of it is currently in dispute and is likely to not be resolved to any reasonable degree of consensus. A single snippet of information has thousands of words written that either dismiss it as trivial or incorp ...[text shortened]... like a whole history book could be written about that. Has any other president had their own flag?)
30 Dec 20
@moonbus saidWait isn't Reagan still wildly popular among conservatives though? I can't find the source but I think he's still 3x more popular than Abraham Lincoln.
It often takes 20-30 years to be able to assess major historical events with the necessary emotional detachment and factual objectivity. Reagan was wildly popular as president, but his foreign policy blunders have come into sharp focus only in the last twenty years
31 Dec 20
@Very-Rusty
I doubt Biden will pardon him, Trump is way too corrupt.
But even if he does or he pardons himself or on Jan 19 he resigns and PENCE pardons him, it only applies to Fed charges.
No help for STATE charges and that is what is driving Trump insane now.
Well more insane than he already is.