2020 Election

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/2020
  

  Trump Can’t Postpone the Election—But He’s Trying to Destroy Its Legitimacy

  There aren’t many historical precedents for such a move, but when they exist, they have been undertaken by politicians who are extremely well liked. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Federalist Society Co-Founder Writes Trump Efforts to Postpone Election Grounds for Removal

  by Steven G. Calabresi

  One of the founders of the Federalist Society argues that Trump's call to postpone the 2020 election is grounds for removal from office if not rescinded. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/26/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan Foundation Asks RNC to Stop Using Reagan's Likeness for a Trump Fundraiser

  The RNC had printed a commemorative coin without receiving permission to use the 40th President’s likeness, said the Reagan Foundation's chief marketing officer.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Will the Crisis Year of 2020 Turn Out Like 1968?

  by James Thornton Harris

  Trump’s attempt to use Nixon’s outdated playbook will fail. Our nation is younger, more diverse and better educated now. We know better. 

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Can Martin Luther King’s Spiritual Vision Kindle a New Progressivism?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Advocates for a broader social democratic political agenda should consider the spiritual roots of Martin Luther King's activism, which have historically engaged a broad range of political views to reform movements. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/12/2020
  

  Historians Will Likely Rank Trump as One of the Worst Presidents

  If Trump goes on to lose in November, he doesn't just need to worry about losing to Biden. Trump needs to worry about the fact that the history books are probably going to put him down as a below average president, if not one of the worst.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  7/7/2020
  

  Why a Biden Administration Shouldn’t Turn the Page on the Trump Era

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  The Obama–Biden administration wanted to move forward rather than hold Wall Street bankers and CIA torturers accountable. If elected, Biden should follow FDR’s playbook and expose his predecessor’s corruption and mismanagement instead.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7/5/2020
  

  Trump is Going All In on Divisive Culture Wars. That Might not Work this Time.

  Trump is showing an inability, or at least a reluctance, to adapt to changing times, appearing eager to delve even further into divisive culture wars — and to continue deploying white identity politics and racism as his weapons of choice.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/5/2020
  

  Trump is Running an Openly Racist Campaign

  by Max Boot

  Trump is running an openly racist campaign at odds with public opinion that has shifted against Confederate monuments and in favor of Black Lives Matter. So he prefers to pretend that he is battling against the unreasonable demands of “cancel culture” — and his supporters pretend to believe him. 

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/2/2020
  

  Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency

  by Daniel Bessner

  Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  6/28/2020
  

  Joe Biden Wants to be the Next FDR — But that Won't be Enough to Solve our Crises

  by Matthew Rozsa

  The author argues that another New Deal will advance reform instead of the rejection of market-driven capitalism needed to address the deep problems facing America and the world. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/30/2020
  

  Leave Lincoln Out of It

  Andrew Ferguson argues that the Lincoln Project's anti-Trump ads follow Abe Lincoln's lead in one respect: they echo the young Lincoln's talent for partisan attacks and inflammatory rhetoric. They inflame and agitate, but don't persuade. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6/19/2020
  

  The Woman Who Helped Save Joe Biden

  In 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, joined Biden’s Judiciary Committee. It solved an image problem for Biden. The results were groundbreaking.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Dear Vice President Biden: Bring Achievers Back to the White House

  by Joseph A. Esposito

  Joseph Biden is urged to remember John F. Kennedy's admiration and celebration of achievement and Franklin Roosevelt's spirit of pragmatic experimentation in his campaign. Should he be elected, he'll need inspiration to lead the nation out of dire circumstances.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Walter Mondale's Campaign Did Accomplish Something (Ask Joe Biden's Future Running Mate)

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  Walter Mondale's choice of Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate in 1984 opened the major parties' general election tickets to women for the first time. Will Joe Biden's campaign fulfill that promise this year?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/16/2020
  

  It Didn’t Have to Be Like This

  The New Deal, per historian Eric Rauchway, illustrates the relationship between the American economy and American democracy.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  What if Trump Refuses to Leave?

  by Richard Striner

  History offers few guidelines for how to handle the increasingly plausible scenario of a defeated president refusing to leave office. 

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Six Reasons Besides Racism Americans Voted For Trump

  by Walter G. Moss

  Donald Trump certainly exploited many white Americans' racism to win votes in 2016. But there are some other disturbing trends--from our anti-intellectualism to our taste for celebrity--that he could exploit again.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  6/1/2020
  

  The Memo: Trump Lags in Polls as Crises Press

  Historian Alan Lichtman, who predicted a Trump victory in 2016, says things look bad for his reelection prospects. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/31/2020
  

  Donald Trump May Not Be Herbert Hoover

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Trump, unlike President Herbert Hoover, may usher us into a true Great Depression and possibly not suffer a staggering defeat at the polls in November, as that president did in 1932.