People who are concerned with how they are view right now, in the zeitgeist, will go down in history as weak and evil losers. Cases in point: the Reds vs the Whites in Russia, Nazis (I don't subscribe to nazism, but we could learn a lot from it if we didn't dismiss it on the emotional level), Jacobins, and the whole French revolution nonsense, to name a few. Losers never have good optics through the prism of history without nuanced knowledge.
It's a shame thus far Trump hasn't exhibited this understanding, perhaps he isn't the right man for the job after all (I had very high hopes, not that my totally irrelevant opinion matters).
BUT MUH OPTICS
People who are concerned with how they are view right now, in the zeitgeist, will go down in history as weak and evil losers. Cases in point: the Reds vs the Whites in Russia, Nazis (I don't subscribe to nazism, but we could learn a lot from it if we didn't dismiss it on the emotional level), Jacobins, and the whole French revolution nonsense, to name a few. Losers never have good optics through the prism of history without nuanced knowledge.
It's a shame thus far Trump hasn't exhibited this understanding, perhaps he isn't the right man for the job after all (I had very high hopes, not that my totally irrelevant opinion matters).