New perspectives on how history is made
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?
Just 35 percent of Americans who were interviewed in the days after the speech thought it was "excellent or good."
It started with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940.
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.
Trump’s “Midnight in America” speech at the Republican National Convention could’ve been lifted directly from the Puritans.
Politico surveyed historians for their opinions.
Mr. Trump, I’ve studied Richard Nixon. And you’re no Richard Nixon.
Trump's statement that the US is hardly in a position to lecture Turkey's Erdogan on civil liberties is astounding.
Trump’s speech was the most negative in tone of any convention acceptance speech since 1972.
But some believed it was true.
A book on Hitler’s mass appeal explains why we can’t underestimate Trump.
"For the Republican Party to recover its soul, Trump needs to be thumped in November."
Here’s what she saw. (Interview.)
Only 18 out of 2,472 delegates in Cleveland are Black, the lowest percentage in over a century.
Lessons from 1968
So says Craig Shirley.
On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Donald J. Trump was conspicuously trying to conjure somebody else: Richard M. Nixon.
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