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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

George Santayana was probably wrong; those who cannot remember the past aren’t necessarily doomed to repeat it. Mark Twain was probably wrong, too; history may not repeat itself, but it probably doesn’t rhyme either. Karl Marx also probably was wrong; history doesn’t repeat itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. And Henry Ford was probably wrong as well; history isn’t more or less bunk.

Still, there is something a bit eerily similar about this era and the 1960s in the United States.

Assassinations by gunfire. Turmoil in the streets. Broad re-evaluation of the role of government. Deep disquiet about the future of American culture. Generations going off in wildly different directions. The adven

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