What’s really amazing is that the GOP’s expectations of Trump are so low at this point that their preferred defense is “he’s incompetent and doesn’t know how to act”.
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The Revolutionary war was far bloodier that we’re led to remember. The antebellum period had chattel slavery, which was a pretty violent institution. As @nungesser, there was a civil war for one (and the decade prior to the civil war saw all sorts of unrest). The late 19th century had bombings, assassinations, and anti-union busting by the pinkertons, who often weren’t picky about who they shot at. Let’s not forget the various Indian wars, which were basically wars of extermination. The 1920s were the utter nadir of race relations in America, where lynchings of black people were routine and accepted as a viable part of southern culture, and people would sell fingers of dead men and women and postcards of lynchings. The depression, where people were starving, leaving home to look for food, setting up on the national mall and being attacked by the Army. The 60s and early 70s, there was an assassination, a major protest, shooting of protesters, bombing, bank robbing, kidnapping, plane hijacking(!) all the time…
Whether or not this is a worse time, I leave that up to you - I’d suggest that even with our problems, this era is far less bloody than previous eras (although cops still shoot young black men on the regular, and being a trans women of color can be really dangerous, among other things). And yes, the past is very important in constituting the present. Let’s not pretend that the changes wrought during these previous
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