“History shouldn’t be judged in the rear view mirror.”
That’s a great line.
The logic of it is that judging history in a rearview mirror is not judging a history in the full context of its own time. It nitpicks history from a context, a future, that the people and time in that history were never part of.
Warning to those historians, and others, who judge history in a rearview mirror - what goes around, comes around.
Well, The only way to see what happened is to look backward. One way to look back is with a mirror.
History can not be examined any other way than looking backward.