What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump’s America

Photo: Liberation Day, President Trump at the Make America Wealthy Again Event – April 2, 2025. Photo credit: The White House via Flickr. US government work. Substack article by Peter Leyden. Freethink – April 15, 2025.

I often find that the best way to understand what is really happening around us today is to imagine a historian in the future looking back on our time and think about what they would say really mattered and why. A historian teaching a university course on American history in the year 2100, roughly 80 years from now, would explain what’s happening in America today in the same way one teaching in 2025 would explain what happened 80 years ago with the beginning of the post-war world in 1945. […]

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