So, is Kennedy celebrated or not? 'Cause no one should mistake him for faithful to his wife. He was just from a more discreet era. I think the 'celebration' has a lot to do with results (sorry Obama)
But this wasn't meant to be yet another 'what's wrong with Trump' thread. I seek a broad array of possible answers to a very specific question
By some, but not generally by historians.
I think the same will be true of Trump. Despite what the right-wing media constantly churns out, he really hasn't accomplished anything that cannot be undone with the stoke of a pen.
When it comes to Trump, the divide in perception is awesome in its scale and delusion. Trump's worshippers really seem to believe that he is playing on a level so advanced no one else can fathom his strategy and execution. His fiercest opponents seem to believe that his election has opened the first seal of the End Times. Neither is true.
Tump is a deeply flawed man. His only enduring skill has been the ability to keep his brand in the public eye. He isn't the smartest guy in the room, but he's no simpleton either. He's slick...and that reads very differently depending on whether you view him as an ally or not. He mirrors Bill Clinton in so many ways.
Trump has done nothing to end the ongoing erosion of individual liberty or state's rights, and has only furthered the decline of our markets into the crony-capitalist oligarch-fascist wet dream of the "global ruling class". You and I are no freer than we were under Obama. Trump isn't a great leader. He isn't a great thinker. He isn't a great executive. He has not, so far at least, proven himself to be a great president.
His followers will continue to attribute the sunrise to his election...and that's one of the reasons it's hard to take them seriously.