Reading Colin Woodard’s American Character, and it is absolutely eye opening about so many things now (even better than his American Nations).

Like why do we have these elaborate fortresslike armories in the middle of our cities.

Also, Andrew Jackson was basically a 19th century Trump (to his intellectual predecessor John Quincy Adams’ Obama), and he defined a whole era, and modern Democrats are going through nearly the same thing Whigs did, which is frightening.