“History does not necessarily repeat itself predictably, but there are patterns worth noting here that reemerge again and again. In election season, we hear countless theories about what electoral trends ‘always hold’ in presidential politics. Well, I’ve identified a fairly unsettling pattern myself: Democrats seem to become more bellicose in their second term. In the last hundred years, starting when early 20th century progressivism began shaping the ideology of the modern Democratic Party, the trend seems clear.”
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