History Is NOT Partisan
It's impossible to imagine Democratic presidents in Republican eras and vice versa. Presidents are at least somewhat products of their environment
Economic and political conditions in certain eras of American history attract “Republican” solutions and certain eras attract “Democratic” solutions, as those terms evolve and respond to the political marketplace. But it usually takes years or decades to recognize this in retrospect.
Many Democrats today might acknowledge that the world would have been…
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