Especially with the current high polarization, I am becoming more and more appreciative of historians. They are not perfect, but do find useful parallels from time to time. My favorite recent talk was by Niall Ferguson [1]. And sure, it's probably a good idea to take him with a grain of salt since he is incentivized to push the idea that all universities are bad and only his university is good (he is co-founder of an university), BUT with that in mind I still thinks he makes great points. One of his points in the talk is that the left nowadays appears to be more busy with feelings than economic inequality.
He also compares the current environment to Nazi Germany. Now a lot of commenters on YouTube think this is inappropriate. Nazi's were bad. End of discussion. If you think that too, I would like to defend Niall a bit here. You can disagree with Nazi's and still listen to Nazi's. How else can you learn from their mistakes? How else can we figure out what went wrong and avoid it happening again?
He also compares the current environment to Nazi Germany. Now a lot of commenters on YouTube think this is inappropriate. Nazi's were bad. End of discussion. If you think that too, I would like to defend Niall a bit here. You can disagree with Nazi's and still listen to Nazi's. How else can you learn from their mistakes? How else can we figure out what went wrong and avoid it happening again?
[1]: https://youtu.be/aazlO39MPMg