Tseng adds that from the long view of history, Taiwan's Early Democracy Movement also helps clarify one particular point: In contemporary discussions of Taiwan's democracy movement, it is customary to draw a straight line from Lei Chen to later activists.
曾祥鐸並指出，以長的歷史縱深來看，《早期台灣民主運動與雷震紀事》還提供了另一項歷史的釐清：今日在討論台灣的民主運動歷程時，敘述者往往將雷震與其以降的反對運動放在同一個脈絡來看。