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1800: If Thomas Jefferson is elected "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced." When it comes to politics we have a bad habit of romanticizing the past and imagining that today's politics are worse and coarser. To make this visceral, I built a little app that shows what the 1800 election would have felt like if X had been around. Scrolling through it really does give you a sense that vicious, indecorous politics long pre-dates present day. Check it out here: https://t.co/eo2vFOf6TF