Since that song was written we've ended segregation in the US

Uh, not quite, Steve.

But things sure have changed. A President Drumph would have been inconceivable in 1965.

Or, as Tom Paxton put it in an interview in March of this year:

"I guess I'll be writing a little more politically now with this asshole in the White House."

"It's not the last year that worries me, it's the next four … It's really hard to overstate how bad I think this man Trump is. I mean I thought Nixon was bad but he was nothing, nothing, compared to this man … [Trump] has no shame and every word out of the man's mouth is a lie. It's just the way it is."