The past isn't dead

A court upended Trump’s tariffs – Trump said losing tariffs would land us in a great depression.

Look back at history: In 1930 to stop ‘The Great Depression’ Republicans passed tariffs; the economy plummeted, unemployment rose to 25%.

Next Trump said the War Department changed its name to the Defense Department to ‘go woke.’

The name was changed in 1947. Did woke exist back then?

Trump said we haven’t won a war since World War II.

But didn’t we win the Cold War?

We’re passing through a ragged time – the past is forgotten. If people liked Trump, they agreed. If they disliked him, they shook their heads.

But a wise man wrote years ago, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’

When you close your eyes to the past sooner or later you pay a price.

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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.