From the "Lessons Not Learned" file…

Trent's back (not that he was all that far away).

As Chris Bowers puts it…

"...the modern Republican Party is welcoming of all types of people, even though they did just elect a leader who think the country would have fewer problems if a segregationist had become President instead of Harry Truman."

That would be "modern" in a purely chronological sense, I suppose.