You are right about all your examples.
My hope is that Trump truly is different.
He appears to be. He has done many things no other Republican has had the stones to do, and in ways no one else in American political leadership has done (Twitter - although FDR’s fireside chats and Reagan’s TV talks were of the same ilk, using the technology of their respective times).
So I do hope this article is correct.
But we shall see.
I hope this time will be different. Past is not prologue, but if history does not repeat, at least it rhymes.