“Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct.” - from 2012
nice attempt to attach a storyline to being a prisoner-of-the-moment.
2012 which you rank 4th highest, where one candidate had formerly supported & implemented a version of the “national healthcare plan” and the other implemented it with conservative support. It was already law, and it wasn’t going away.
Comapre anything on your list to '36 where capitalism itself was at stake, or '80 and the solidification of neoliberalism.