New perspectives on how history is made
And then there’s the case of Donald Trump.
Yeah, he’s a jerk. Yeah, he’s immoral. Yeah, he’s profane. But Trump’s policies are moral.
Why this historian wonders about how different his life would have been if he had gone to college today.
A clue is offered in an article published in The Nation about a century ago.
This is what history suggests.
Does such a small, angry, cruel man not risk making all of us small, angry and cruel?
His white working class base has been betrayed.
It’s a story from history that shows the danger of self-serving memos cut to fit the fashion of those in power.
That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed when defending Trump from charges he neglected the island because he’s racist. Here’s the backstory.
His real estate background isn’t helping him govern.
What historians are saying.
You can find the DNA of today’s far right in the slaveholders who precipitated the Civil War.
Instead, they should invest in education.
“Reactionary” is more accurate.
His punk conservatism is juvenile, angry, and unsophisticated. Like 70’s punk rock, he relishes lashing out at authority.
In Watergate the public got to hear directly from the key players.
His illness involves his deep-seated need for desecration.
But it’s seriously dated. And there's another tradition he could draw on.
A retreat to tribalism will undermine national unity.
We sorely need to be reminded of what they stood for.
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