MAGA - genuine question, what does the A refer to?

[Chap]

Trump doesn't really think about histoy in any systematic or theoretical way. In my view, he has an incoherent and unformed attitudinal-based sense of the past. [...]

Am I right in remembering that while discussing the American Civil War a few years ago he referred to the advisability or otherwise of the Union government having closed the airports?

His ignorance is truly wondrous!

[malkie]

I suspect that it's a question not answerable in terms of, for example, one specific decade. Perhaps it's a patchwork quilt of concepts and practices dominant in different time periods?

So it could be something like:

• the social structures of the 1920s
• the general prosperity of the 1950s and 60s
• the US military might of the 1940s
• whenever it was that 47 got his inheritance and had not yet bankrupted a casino

It would have to have a "cafeteria" flavour, because you won't get everyone to agree. Best keep it vague.

[Whiskey]

Is that what ceeboo said?

Look, I know this is difficult for you with English not being your first language, but I didn’t state what ceeboo said. I asked ceeboo a follow up question on the basis that he responded without answering the original question.

Is there a grown up nearby that can talk you through this complicated grammar stuff?

No. And I didn't realize your snark about ceeboo would lead an adult to think that the follow up question was warranted or that it would get a response. My bad. You know me, just runnin' around with this dunce cap on. Silly me, thinking that his response was made knowing that he was ignoring the original question for good reason.

[Gadianton]

Trump doesn't really think about histoy in any systematic or theoretical way. In my view, he has an incoherent and unformed attitudinal-based sense of the past. For him the past is better than now, and if he can use that to get his way, he will be mollified for the moment. Trump is a man of fears and appetites. He has no real friends, loves, or ideals. Others attribute to him values he does not possess, and he is happy to go along with that if it gets him what he wants.

As a historian, are there any civilizations that haven't had a mythology about a prior golden age?

[Kishkumen]

As a historian, are there any civilizations that haven't had a mythology about a prior golden age?

The privileging of the past as an ideal time is practically hardwired. I don’t know of many cultures that don’t have some kind of myth of a better past, but I also don’t know every culture. The question in my mind is, given the existence of modern historical method, why people continue to imagine a better time in the past and be manipulable by appeal to that mythology.

[canpakes]

Silly me, thinking that his response was made knowing that he was ignoring the original question for good reason.

That reason being that neither he nor any Trump fan can provide an answer.

[Whiskey]

Silly me, thinking that his response was made knowing that he was ignoring the original question for good reason.

That reason being that neither he nor any Trump fan can provide an answer.

If that’s true, what dumbass asked the question?

[canpakes]

That reason being that neither he nor any Trump fan can provide an answer.

If that’s true, what dumbass asked the question?

I haven’t compiled a list, but they’re probably no dumber than the person who just asked the question immediately above.

[Whiskey]

If that’s true, what dumbass asked the question?

I haven’t compiled a list, but they’re probably no dumber than the person who just asked the question immediately above.

We have agreed that I am the dumbest. Also the stupidest. Yep. Imagine getting smoked by me.

[canpakes]

I haven’t compiled a list, but they’re probably no dumber than the person who just asked the question immediately above.

We have agreed that I am the dumbest. Also the stupidest. Yep. Imagine getting smoked by me.

We’ll have to imagine it, yes.