You keep asking these presentist questions Bob. As the immortal Marisa Tomei said in My Cousin Vinny, ‘that’s a bullshit question!’ because you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what’s happening today.
— “Colonel Roosevelt” author Edmund Morris, in an interview on Face the Nation, when asked what he thought Theodore Roosevelt would make of today’s politics.
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“…you cannot pluck people out of the past and expect them to comment on what’s happening today.” Actually, you could, if you brought them up to speed on what has happened since their demise.