No, that was not me on President Biden in that last post, but it could have been. I could have written identically about our current president. Those words were written rather by "reflective liberal intellectual and historian" George Bancroft in a letter to "his fellow liberal" Francis Lieber on President Abraham Lincoln on Oct. 29, 1862. The last sentence in that post is by Bruce Catton in Never Call Retreat.
Every time I read this history of the Civil War I see the same country today, similar, sometimes the same people, as if nationally and down to the atomized individual we have been reincarnated to play Groundhog Day. It is eerie. But I never had my brain short-circuited like I did just now reading that.
