The comparisons make good for good wonkery, but the lessons you can draw from it would be completely spurious. Unless you think history is merely the repetition of the same.
^^^^^ CB: Is there any value for the present in studying history ? Is it that we can draw no lessons from history ? Is scholarly discipline of history sort of like astrology or tarot ? Maybe the American people are right in their intellectual style of historical amnesia and living entirely in the present.
Maybe the world is as Heraclitus had it.