GOP Convention

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8-2-16 (accessed)
  

  A Tale of Two Conventions

  by Jill Lepore

  The spectacles in Cleveland and Philadelphia both came down to a question as old as the Republic: who are the people and who speaks for them?

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• SOURCE: Newsmax
  7-30-16
  

  Gallup: Trump's Convention Speech Worst Numbers of Any Polled

  Just 35 percent of Americans who were interviewed in the days after the speech thought it was "excellent or good."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7-22-16
  

  There’s Nothing Un-American About Donald Trump

  by Greg Grandin

  Trump’s “Midnight in America” speech at the Republican National Convention could’ve been lifted directly from the Puritans.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7-22-16
  

  The Worst Convention in U.S. History?

  Politico surveyed historians for their opinions.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7-21-16
  

  The RNC Is a Disaster—So Why Can’t I Sleep at Night?

  by D.D. Guttenplan

  A book on Hitler’s mass appeal explains why we can’t underestimate Trump.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7-24-16
  

  A Brief History Of Spousal Speeches At Political Conventions

  It started with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940.  

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  7-22-16
  

  Mr. Trump, You’re No Richard Nixon

  by Rick Perlstein

  Mr. Trump, I’ve studied Richard Nixon. And you’re no Richard Nixon.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-16
  

  Donald Trump and America’s Moral Authority

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  Trump's statement that the US is hardly in a position to lecture Turkey's Erdogan on civil liberties is astounding.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-23-16
  

  Donald Trump’s Plagiarized Anti-Semitic Slogan

  Trump says he’ll put America First, which of course carries echoes of the old isolationist and anti-Semitic movement—which Trump has apparently never even heard of.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-22-16
  

  Donald Trump’s convention speech was the most negative in more than 40 years

  Trump’s speech was the most negative in tone of any convention acceptance speech since 1972.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  7-22-16
  

  Trump's RNC Speech Plagiarized Hitler? No, it was satire.

  But some believed it was true.

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• SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
  7-21-16
  

  Daniel Pipes: “Why I Just Quit the Republican Party"

  by Daniel Pipes

  "For the Republican Party to recover its soul, Trump needs to be thumped in November."

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7-21-16
  

  Jill Lepore attended the GOP convention

  Here’s what she saw. (Interview.)

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• SOURCE: DiversityInc
  7-20-16
  

  Black Delegates at GOP Convention at Lowest Level in History

  Only 18 out of 2,472 delegates in Cleveland are Black, the lowest percentage in over a century.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-20-16
  

  What History Says About Donald Trump’s Convention Speech

  Lessons from 1968

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• SOURCE: The Washington Times
  7-19-16
  

  Pro-Reagan Writer: GOP needs unity or will fail

  So says Craig Shirley.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-18-16
  

  It’s Donald Trump’s Convention. But the Inspiration? Nixon.

  On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Donald J. Trump was conspicuously trying to conjure somebody else: Richard M. Nixon.