In my high school newspaper (I was the editor of it in 1976), I wrote after the election that Carter will do a good job and I have high hopes uniting the USA. In 1980, I walked out of my poliSci class when the professors told us to vote for the re-election of Carter. (I failed the course, my PoliSci professor was a marxist and I told her that all the time)
Amazing how history, if one is honest, teaches us, isn’t it?
The only thing that may surpass that truth, in my view, is how QUICKLY history is forgotten and the lessons have to be learned anew. Sometimes at great cost.