Considering that most of us, when it comes to the scholarly pursuit of history, are just operating on the last vestiges of knowledge drilled in from high school social studies, cold hard textbook historical context is getting harder to come by in your av. Twitter thread.
So it makes New York magazine’s latest cover story, Just Wait: Watergate didn’t become Watergate overnight, either, a surprisingly...soothing? read for even the most antsy liberal out there taste-testing her impeachmint cocktail recipe. By just heaping out a motherlode of facts about the Nixon resignation — many of which had since been forgotten / twisted / not included in the average AP U.S. history syllabus — Frank Rich gives us a grounded argument that, whatever happens, Trump does not the end times make, because we’ve been through this shit before (and with far wilier villains at the wheel).
Give it a read, let me know what you think, and let’s all make some more room for regular history lessons yea??
Like Deez Links? Forward to your APUSH teacher who was also maybe a little high the whole time.