back? are we taking a step? back see, this is the problem. we always have this kind of narrative of america always already on the road to a more perfect union, as a kind of progressive narrative. in fact, that linear story isn t really what happens. we re more of a circle. a spiral, upward and downward, in some ways, so, it s not a kind of return backwards. it s some old, familiar stuff in new form. for a different age, in a different time. it s familiar, it s constant, but we are the new actors in it. we make it distinct in this moment. and so there s an echo of history to use twins language, mark twain s language, history rhymes. it doesn t repeat. so, we are hearing the rhymes right now. obviously, today is so much, including a call to action. people who are listening, young people who are listening to you today and hear you say is not so much moving backwards, but,