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Different historical situation, but interesting to compare with post-Great Recession and post-COVID politics. Working and middle class confront similar 'unpleasantness of historicity' that defines turn towards Trump. DNC failure to understand this underwrites their rejection of Sanders.

This overemphasizes the military and administrative capacity of European colonies in North America AND under emphasizes the degree to which Indigenous nations were running the show. Misleading notions of primitivism go hand in hand with this misconception.

Part of the issue with pop history is that it favours misleading settler colonial narratives of the "New World" in which Europeans secured legitimate sovereignty over the land through conquest - a "history is written by the winners" type of historiography.

I mean, Melville in *1855* was writing short stories that were critical of American imperial ambition in South America against the backdrop of the country's continuing insistence on racial slavery.