great quote at the end: > Readers who share the assumption of likeness are given the delicious opportunity to nod knowingly. But historical writing should aspi

great quote at the end: > Readers who share the assumption of likeness are given the delicious opportunity to nod knowingly. But historical writing should aspire to higher aims and riskier arguments than those that merely flatter the sentiments of anti-Trump partisans who, overwhelmed by the present, find satisfying displeasure in echoes from the past.