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Donald Trump

  • SOURCE: ZNet
    11/29/2020

    Is the Nationalist Tide Receding?

    by Lawrence Wittner

    The author contends, with hope, that the Trump presidency was a brief blip in the long decline of nationalistic conflict that will allow international cooperation for global challenges.

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    11/30/2020

    1918 Germany Has a Warning for America

    German editorialist Jochen Bittner warns that Trump's insistence that the election has been stolen from him echoes the Dolchstosslegende rhetoric which sustained the ascendant National Socialists for years after the end of World War I.

  • SOURCE: The New Yorker
    11/29/2020

    The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth

    New Yorker editor David Remnick writes that while Trump is not the first president to battle the media, his apparent belief that the press exists as his public relations agency--and anger that it doesn't work that way--are leading him to attack a fundamental institution of society with deadly consequences.

  • SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
    11/30/2020

    What Makes A One-Term President?

    by Julia Azari

    In earlier eras, one-term presidencies were more the rule than the exception, but Donald Trump is a rarity among modern presidents in losing his bid for reelection. A scholar of the presidency examines the shift.

  • SOURCE: Politico
    11/19/2020

    Why Michigan’s Top Legislators Should Cancel that Meeting with Trump

    University of Michigan law professor Richard Primus: Since Michigan's House and Senate leaders have previously declared their intention to respect the state's popular vote for Joe Biden, if they change their minds after a meeting with Trump it would expose them to credible accusations and potential prosecution for accepting bribes--crimes for which Trump can't pardon them.

  • SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
    11/15/2020

    What The Bunker Mentality Really Means

    by Benjamin Carter Hett

    Trump's refusal of contradictory information will prolong his contestation of a doomed reelection bid and subvert effective responses to COVID. Its most dangerous effect could be to spawn a "backstabbing" narrative that keeps the Republican party tied to bitterness and division. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    11/18/2020

    Trump’s Presidential Library Will Be A Shrine To His Ego

    by Paul Musgrave

    If former presidents aren't interested in hosting official presidential papers at a library center, there is little oversight of how they tell the president's story. Any future Trump presidential center will likely not function as a library at all, but as a propaganda organ for Trumpism. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    11/18/2020

    Trump has Changed the Way Evangelical Christians Think about the Apocalypse

    by Thomas Lecaque

    Evangelicals have largely avoided interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic as a sign of the end times because doing so would also demand that they recognize their champion Donald Trump as a morally degenerate leader. The apocalyptic rhetoric that flowed freely under Obama has been silent this year. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    11/16/2020

    We Dare Not Repeat the Mistakes of 9/11

    by Jennifer Rubin

    The Washington Post columnist argues that the delayed transition to the George W. Bush presidency in 2000 and 2001 limited the nation's preparedness for a terrorist attack. 

  • SOURCE: Boston Globe
    11/11/2020

    Trump’s Big Election Lie Pushes America Toward Autocracy

    by Timothy Snyder

    "A claim that an election was illegitimate is a claim to remaining in power. A coup is under way, and the number of participants is not shrinking but growing. Few leading Republicans have acknowledged that the race is over."

  • SOURCE: The New Yorker
    11/16/2020

    Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

    by Jill Lepore

    Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records. 

  • SOURCE: Democracy Journal
    11/12/2020

    The GOP Test

    by Sean Wilentz

    If Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and their respective caucuses persist, they will have tainted their party far beyond what Trump already has.