A Republican administration famous for its corruption. Tax cuts for the wealthy. Increased tariffs. A much more restrictive immigration regime based on ethnicity. Big technological changes. A fundamentalist attack on science. Disengagement from former alliances. Even the backwash from a pandemic.
Yes, it can seem like we’ve gone back 100 years, minus the unprecedented economic growth and Prohibition and with an unnecessary war. Maybe Trump should put Warren Harding’s portrait in the Oval Office instead of Jackson’s.