Commentary It has been over 100 years since the United States has had a political figure like former President Donald Trump. Given his personal popularity among the Republican base along with his core message, Donald Trump proved with his appearance at CPAC that the Republican Party remains within his grasp. That may well mean he can take the 2024 nomination as well. Grover Cleveland is the only president in American history to have two nonconsecutive presidential terms. His place and time bear a remarkable resemblance to our own. As I discussed in my book, “The Divided Era,” the Gilded Age (roughly the last 25 years of the 1800s) was the period most like our own Divided Era. As a nation, America was deeply divided coming out of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Voter interest was at historic highs as seminal issues confronted the nation. Those issues included the wounds of the Civil War …