Jack Rakove, a history professor at Stanford, pointed to the final years of the 1700s, a period of intense and bitter partisan competition between the Federalist Party and the opposing Democratic-Republicans. AdvertisementDavid Greenberg, a professor of American history at Rutgers, offered 1968 as another time of extraordinary turbulence. “I think we can gain perspective by taking the long view of history.”On a related subject, it is my view that Trump is the worst president of my lifetime. But is he the worst president ever? In the coming days, I’ll put that question to historians, and we’ll see if the long view of history cuts Trump some slack.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 16, 2020 10:03 UTC