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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/29/2021
The My Pillow Guy Could Really Destroy Democracy
by Anne Applebaum
"Wacky though it seems for a businessman to invest so much in a conspiracy theory, there are important historical precedents."
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SOURCE: MSNBC
7/25/2021
The President Who Beats Donald Trump at Corruption
by Kevin M. Kruse
"To find the real counterpart to Trump’s gang of money-grubbing grifters, we need to look back a century to the crime-riddled administration of Warren G. Harding."
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SOURCE: Made
7/16/2021
A Hitler-Style Seizure of Power Was Never in Trump's Reach
by Waitman Wade Beorn
A historian of the German military under Nazism argues that Trump lacked the ability to recruit the military to his side the way that Hitler did, and the US faces greater danger from extremist paramilitaries or civil attempts to subvert democracy than from a military coup.
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7/18/2021
Trump Cheated on His Taxes. What Happens Now?
by James D. Zirin
"When I was a federal prosecutor going after white collar criminals, I always looked for the accountant. He was the most likely witness for the government."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/13/2021
David Frum: There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
"Why do people sign up with the putschists after the putsch has failed? They’re betting that the failed putsch is not the past—it’s the future."
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SOURCE: Dissent
7/12/2021
What Was the Fascism Debate?
by Udi Greenberg
What are the stakes in the academic debate over whether the Trump administration was fascist?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/9/2021
Donald Trump has Blurred the Line Between Populism and Fascism in a Dangerous Way
by Federico Finchelstein
A number of right populist leaders in the post-World War II era kept power by embracing democratic elections. Donald Trump is pushing a return to authoritarian politics that rejects democracy.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
7/6/2021
The Paradox of Trumpist Patriotism: You Love America, but Hate Most Americans
by Joshua Tait
"The paradox of the most ardent patriots being angriest at the state of their own country is a version of the conservative dilemma."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/7/2021
Too Many are Still Underestimating the Trump Threat
by Max Boot
"What has made dictators and demagogues so dangerous is their ability to pull vast numbers of people into their personal delusions — to turn their paranoid fantasies and megalomaniacal dreams into a harsh reality for millions."
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5/30/2021
Politics Aside, Was Trump Even an Effective Leader?
by George C. Edwards III
Trump's supposed dealmaking genius amounted to playing to his base to the detriment of any policy agenda.
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5/30/2021
The Post-Trump GOP: Rebirth or Stillbirth?
by Michael A. Genovese
The Republicans are betting that sticking with Trump's MAGA posture will usher in a political realignment with a broader GOP base. History shows that with anger and resentment standing in for a substantive policy agenda that meets the challenges of the times such a realignment is unlikely.
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SOURCE: Politico
5/25/2021
Trump Teams Up with Newt for New Contract With America
If Newt Gingrich is to be belived, the Republicans hope to win back Congressional majorities by focusing on culture war grudges that involve historians –particularly targeting the teaching of critical perspectives on American racism.
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5/23/2021
Cultures of Resentment among the Hitlerites and Trumpers
by Walter G. Moss
Recent essays have begun the work of understanding the resentments of Trump supporters. If this movement is to be stopped, proponents of liberal democracy need to address some of them, without necessarily condoning their motivations.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/18/2021
Nicole Hemmer on the GOP's Shrinking Tent
Historian of conservatism Nicole Hemmer joins Ezra Klein's podcast to discuss precedent for the Republican Party's tilt toward extremism.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/12/2021
House Republicans’ Leadership Fight Signals A New Direction
by Zack C. Smith
Intramural leadership fights in Congress are nothing new; a battle for Republican leadership that began with the Reagan Revolution led ove a decade to a party committed to confrontation. It remains to be seen what the fallout will be from today's purge of Liz Cheney from the Republican House leadership.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/10/2021
Think Republicans in Washington are Bad? They’re Far Worse at the State Level
by Max Boot
The states have been called "laboratories of democracy." Max Boot warns that Dr. Frankenstein also ran a lab.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/5/2021
Why Trump Still Has Millions of Americans in His Grip
Columnist Thomas Edsall surveys recent research about the past and future economic impact of automation and artificial intelligence and concludes that Democratic elites have a short time left to get ahead of cataclysmic changes in employment or else the Trump phenomenon will only be a preview of political rage.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/19/2021
The Two Memos With Enormous Constitutional Consequences
by Kimberly Wehle
"Presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It’s not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision. It is not law at all."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/14/2021
Trump, Defying Custom, Hasn’t Given the National Archives Records of His Speeches at Political Rallies
by Shannon Bow O'Brien
"Until President Trump, there have been no missing public speeches in the permanent collection. By removing these speeches, Trump is creating a false perception of his presidency, making it look more serious and traditional."
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4/11/2021
A Reason Republicans May Not Wish to Proclaim Themselves the Party of Lincoln
by Tim Lynch
The fledgling Republican Party needed to expand its appeal beyond its antislavery position, which remained its greatest asset and liability through the end of the Civil War. The party risks national ruin if it becomes the party of Trump and his Big Lie about the 2020 election results.