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How Historians Rank Trump

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How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best — and Worst — Presidents?

According to the 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section who filled out this survey, Trump ranks worst.


The Trump Cult

by Ed Simon

It’s a particularly American phenomenon.


The Trump Dead-Enders

by Tom Nichols

“These types of Trumpers are just lost. They're not going to climb down, change their minds, listen to new information."


Why Trump's Crassness Matters

by Walter G. Moss

It’s a rejection of truth and beauty and love.


Putin-Trump Summit: What Historians Are Saying

Their tweets and retweets.


The Trump Analogy Everybody’s Overlooked

by Frank Palmeri

Donald Trump, Charles II, and collusion with an enemy power.


A Historian Explains How Mainstream Conservatives Made Trump

Willamette’s Seth Cotlar argued in a tweet storm that the "embryo of Trumpism [was] lurking within ’90s conservatism” and the Internet took notice.


The GOP Shouldn’t Be Shocked that Its Voters Are in the Tank for Trump

by Donne Levy

He’s making the same race-based appeals the party’s candidates have made for decades.


Trump Is Terrorizing Children

by Richard E. Frankel

To this Holocaust historian what's happening is unconscionable.


The End of the Trump Presidency Now Looms

by Ronald L. Feinman

While it now seems likely that Trump will outlast the 492 days of Zachary Taylor’s presidency, it’s doubtful his term will last as long as Warren Harding’s.


Remember When Pence Praised Trump to His Face 14 Times in Under 3 Minutes?

by Joel K. Goldstein

Four decades after it was reinvented by Carter and Mondale, the Office of the Vice Presidency is sinking in status.


The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece

by David Stuttard

His name? Alcibiades. Like Trump, this scion of wealth loved to win and manipulate the masses.


What We Really Have to Worry About Isn’t Trump

by Benjamin Carter Hett

It’s if a more competent politician who exploits rural grievances succeeds him.