The Search for Historical Parallels to This Moment Is of Limited Utility

In 2008 was only the 39th time Joe Biden had run for president and he was still kind of figuring things out. If he'd really had his legs under him at that point, I think it would have been a very, very different year. The search for historical parallels to this moment is of more limited utility than normal because Trump is so sui generis in American politics.