Carl Rollyson is the author of Making the American Presidency: How Biographers Shape History, among many other books.
For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.
In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.
The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.
Faulkner’s treatment of the past means much for the nature of our future.