Donald Trump

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/2022
  

  Conservative Matthew Continetti Says GOP Must Dump Trump. Does History Show they Can (or Want To)?

  Concern about whether the Republicans can adopt a post-Trump conservatism reflects a long history of elite conservatism embracing and mobilizing demagogic populism. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/16/2022
  

  Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How History Says Trump's Cult Will End

  "The other big story is that his agenda and his methods are being continued at the state level. These states are really laboratories of autocracy now, like Florida, Texas."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/12/2022
  

  New Trump Book Shows Promise, Peril of Writing Very Recent History

  by Paul M. Renfro

  The Presidency of Donald J. Trump is an ambitious and compelling book, one that covers a great deal of territory, but sometimes is hindered by the ongoing tendency of its subject to focus on himself, says historian Paul Renfro.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/12/2022
  

  New Book Offers First Historians' Take on Trump Presidency

  Julian Zelizer is the editor of a collection of essays by an all-star lineup of historians taking stock of the Trump presidency. He discusses the book and the challenges of putting the recent, contested past in perspective. 

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• 4/12/2022
  

  On "Smoking Guns"—Yesterday and Today (and Tomorrow?)

  by Jim Zirin

  As text messages between Donald Jr. and Mark Meadows surface, it seems the last roadblock to a prosecution of Donald Trump over January 6 is a lack of will, not a lack of evidence.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/6/2022
  

  Trump Can't Just Erase History the Way Nixon Tried to Do

  by Tim Naftali

  "The newly reported Trumpian gap may actually be easier to fill in, and therefore less of a threat to the historical record than Nixon’s."

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• 4/10/2022
  

  After 50 Years, "The Godfather" Still Has Fresh Lessons For Us

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  Francis Ford Coppola couldn't have anticipated the Trump presidency and its aftermath, but his 1972 masterpiece nevertheless helps uns to understand it. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/4/2022
  

  What I Learned when Donald Trump Tried to "Correct" the Record

  by Julian Zelizer

  "As an academic historian, I never expected to find myself in a videoconference with Donald Trump."

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  3/10/2022
  

  Trump's "Sh*thole Countries" Remark is Nothing American Churches Haven't Said for Generations

  by Kathryn Gin Lum

  American missionaries in the nineteenth century prefigured the former president's comments by forming a worldview of a "blessed us" and a "backward them." 

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• 3/13/2022
  

  Richard Nixon Made one of the Most Successful Political Comebacks in History. Trump Ignores His Playbook

  by Donne Levy

  Donald Trump is departing in multiple ways from the comeback strategy of Richard Nixon. Is this a political mistake, or a reflection of a different Republican Party and a different age of politics? 

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• SOURCE: People's World
  2/14/2022
  

  Historians Urge Stronger Anti-Fascist Commitment or US Risks Following Weimar Germany

  by Berry Craig

  The coalition assembled by Donald Trump includes enough white nationalists, violent extremists, and anti-democracy ideologues that the Biden administration's faith in institutional protections may be insufficient to contain it through normal means. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  Trump and Grover Cleveland Have a Lot in Common – Will that Include Winning Two Non-Consecutive Terms?

  by Michael A. Genovese

  With roots in New York state, a predilection for young women, and campaign scandal, Donald Trump has plenty in common with Grover Cleveland as he seeks to replicate Cleveland's unique political accomplishment. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/2022
  

  "He Never Stopped Ripping Things Up": Trump's Habitual Document Destruction

  Donald Trump's personal defiance of the Presidential Records Act appears to have been widespread, purposeful, and illegal. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  National Archive Had to Retrieve White House Records from Mar-a-Lago

  In an odd twist that no one could have seen coming, the Trump administration appears to have violated legal requirements for the preservation and security of presidential records. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/3/2022
  

  For Trump and Trumpists, the Law is Always White

  by Melissa Gira Grant

  In singling out the Black elected officials who thwarted his bid to steal the election and are investigating his political and business affairs, Trump evoked the Reconstruction-era rhetoric of white southerns under attack, which, as Eric Foner wrote, justified a massive wave of racist political violence. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  1/24/2022
  

  Margaret O'Mara on the First Historical View of the Trump Presidency

  Historian Margaret O'Mara, a contributor to a new volume of historians' first assessements of the Trump presidency discusses how 45 may be remembered. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/19/2022
  

  Is the Right Wing Fringe Moving Beyond Trump?

  by Thomas Lecaque

  "The most difficult part of riding a tiger, as the saying goes, is dismounting—and Donald Trump is riding a tiger of conspiracy-theorizing, apocalypse-chasing, murderous wackos."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/20/2022
  

  Trump's NPR Interview Shows the Hazard of Giving Him Airtime

  by Federico Finchelstein

  The history of fascism shows that it's a mistake for the news media to treat propagandists as honest actors. They'll exploit the free press to promote their ideas, but crush independent journalism at the first opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  1/11/2022
  

  Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

  by Melinda Cooper

  Trumpism's base includes significant leadership and financial support from a faction of capitalists who own and lead private companies and shun many of the concessions made by publicly-traded corporations toward liberalism. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/8/2022
  

  We Must Fight the New Lost Cause Myth Trump has Birthed

  by David Blight

  "Yes, disinformation has to be fought with good information. But it must also be fought with fierce politics, with organization, and if necessary with bodies, non-violently."