Donald Trump

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• SOURCE: KUOW
  6/28/2019
  

  Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention

  When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.

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• 6/30/19
  

  How the Specter of Andrew Johnson Haunts Donald Trump

  by Mike Purdy

  When the history books are written, impeachment may define Trump’s presidency in a similar way that “impeachment” and “Andrew Johnson” are solidly and forever linked together.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6/10/2019
  

  Why Clinton Got Impeached

  by Rich Lowry

  The anti-Clinton case then was stronger than the anti-Trump case is now.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/10/19
  

  What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get About George Washington

  by Peter Canellos

  “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/5/19
  

  Historian Victor Davis Hanson's New Book Defends Trump

  Hanson, who is a retired classics professor and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, compares Trump to a tragic hero

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• 2/16/19
  

  What To Know About the History of Impeachment

  by Peter Charles Hoffer

  A primer on the constitutional basis of impeachment, when it's been used before, and what that means for our current political moment. 

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• SOURCE: The Canadian Jewish News
  11-5-18
  

  Simon Schama: Donald Trump is insensitive to Jews

  “Anyone who thinks anti-Semitism in not part of U.S. politics today is in denial.”

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4-9-18
  

  Presidential historian Gil Troy: Donald Trump has committed “a crime against the American people”

  Troy says it’s not too late for Trump to change — but history will judge his enablers harshly.

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• SOURCE: Sandbox (blog)
  2-1-17
  

  Martin Kramer notes how a ban on Jews in the 1930s affected historian Bernard Lewis

  by Martin Kramer

  "Trump’s limited executive order doesn’t resemble the sweeping Jewish ban that changed the career of Bernard Lewis.”

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• SOURCE: OUPblog
  8-11-15
  

  Wendell Willkie: a forerunner to Donald Trump

  by Lewis L. Gould

  The crowds in the galleries chanted “We want Willkie,” and the delegates yielded to what seemed an irresistible tide.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  7-17-15
  

  Down With The Confederate Flag, Up With Donald Trump!

  by Rick Perlstein

  Removing the flag of the Confederacy, raising the flag of immigrant hating: the former doesn’t spell some new Jerusalem of tolerance; the latter doesn’t mean that conservatism’s racism has finally been revealed for all to see.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7-20-15
  

  What Trump Doesn’t Get About Vietnam

  by Josh Zeitz

  The conflict was an internal class war as well as a war against a foreign enemy.

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• 7-20-15
  

  Donald Trump, Xenophobia, and Immigration: We’ve Been Here Before

  by Ron Briley

  Republicans will face another long period in the political wilderness if they do not disassociate the party from the xenophobia of Donald Trump.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  7-19-15
  

  How did this monster get created? The decades of GOP lies that brought us Donald Trump, Republican front-runner

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Donald Trump did not happen overnight. He's the product of a dangerous, cynical GOP strategy that dates back years

• Henry Ford for President!

  by Joseph Kip Kosek

  The nation’s leading capitalist emerges as a surprise candidate for president.  His political views range from unknown to repulsive to incoherent, but he vaults to the top of early opinion polls.  He has that flair, that self-reliance, that je ne sais pas that set him apart in an undistinguished field.  The man, of course, is Henry Ford.  Long before Donald Trump burst into contention for the Republican nomination, Ford briefly became the most exciting prospect for the presidential election of 1924.