Trump Is A Test For The ‘great Man Theory’

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 7:00am

Simon Kuper: “Modern historians tend to be wary of ascribing change to individuals. They are more likely to identify ‘the fish that changed the world’ (to quote the subtitle of Mark Kurlansky’s book Cod) than a human who did. Most historians prefer impersonal structural forces: geography for the French Annales school, economics for Marxists, technology for others, while there’s been a recent surge of interest in climate change and pandemics.” “But having said all that, here comes Donald Trump.

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