1920/2020 uncanny similarities

[Lincoln Republican]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/sick-president-global-pandemic-racial-injustice-welcome-to-the-us-election%e2%80%a6-of-1920/ar-BB1abufd?li=AAggNb9&ocid=mailsignout

Uncanny similarities between 1920 and 2020 elections.

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[Del Tachi]

lol

1.  Trump having a brief, mostly asymptomatic bout of COVID-19 is hardly comparable to Wilson spending most of 1919/20 paralyzed in bed after a stroke.  Calling this one a similarity (along with many other on the list) is really stretching it. 

2.  Since 1900, there have been no less than 6 deadly, global pandemics (Spanish flu, 1957-58 Asian flu, 1968-69 bird flu, HIV/AIDS, 2009 swine flu and COVID-19.)  These types of events are not uncommon.

3.  Racial issues are always part of the American political dynamic.  This is like saying Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush were both "particularly concerned with foreign policy", or that FDR and Barack Obama both concerned with "the economy."  Every era has these issues. 

The rest of these "similarities" are extremely vague and reductionist, and could be applied to any two years or campaigns.  The only reason they seem exceptional here is because they're exactly 100 years apart, but in reality they're no more significant than events occurring 17, 53, 106 or some other random # of years apart.