Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here.
That’s where this newsletter comes in.
I’m a professor of American history.
The politics of the heartland states, as reported by the people who live here, as we get ready to make decisions in the 2020 election: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Indiana and Illinois.