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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.
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4/11/2021
Political Precedent for the Trump Cult of Personality
by Donne Levy
Their differences in character and personality should not obscure similarities between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Both men's ability to flout the truth and survive serious scandals, plus their dalliances with white racism, make their political careers resemble cults of personality.
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3/28/2021
Is History Ready to Judge the Trump Presidency?
by Samuel (Shenger) Zhou
Understandings of presidential success and failure might have to be revised for Donald Trump; while Trump failed to win reelection, his media tactics will allow him, unlike the previous Republican president George W. Bush, to retain control of his party and remain a national force even out of office. Is this the future of the presidency?
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/22/2021
The Trump Presidency Is History. They’re Writing the First Draft
“The challenge with President Trump is understanding the foundational elements of his presidency as deeply rooted in basic features of American history,” Julian Zelizer said, while also noting the places “where the presidency jumped the shark.”
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SOURCE: Vox
3/23/2021
The Intellectual Case For Trump: A Debate
Vox's Sean Illing discusses the subject with Charles Kesler, Professor of Politics at Claremont McKenna College.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/16/2021
The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
Anthea Butler and Kristin Kobes Du Mez offer insight into how racial double standards within evangelical religion and the willingness of "insider" historians to craft a selective picture of evangelical political action has made it difficult to understand how many of today's evangelical leaders have made peace with (or even embraced) white supremacy.
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3/21/2021
Rally 'Round the Rune: Fascist Echoes of the CPAC Stage
by Mark Auslander and Jay Ball
The incorporation of a Norse rune associated with the SS into the stage of the recent CPAC conference probably isn't an accident; the choice reflects the cultural cachet of Norse myth on the far right, the conservative movement's desire to maintain deniability about its ties to the far right, and the recognition that the design would be crystal clear to viewers of internet memes.
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3/7/2021
When Did America Stop Being Great?
by Nick Bryant
Nick Bryant began observing America as a 16 year old at the patriotic spectacle of the 1984 Olympics. His book traces the path from "Morning in America" to "American Carnage," fixing some blame but also seeking a way through.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
1/20/2021
Making Revisionism Great Again: The Trouble With Trump’s Rewriting Of American History
by James W. Loewen
The 1776 commission quotes Frederick Douglass for its own peculiar purposes, so I shall end by quoting him for mine. “He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.”
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SOURCE: Governing
3/4/2021
From Washington to Trump: What Is Dereliction of Duty?
by Lindsay Chervinsky
Public ideas of the presidential duty to defend the nation against foreign and domestic enemies have evolved over two centuries; if Donald Trump had been president in 1793, his response to a pandemic wouldn't have cost him reelection.
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3/2/2021
Historians on CPAC 2021
The annual conservative meeting showed that Donald Trump still holds the steering wheel of the Republican Party. Historians on the speeches, the stage design, and the golden idol.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
2/20/2021
As Long as Trump Controls the GOP, We Won't Have a Third Party
by Kevin M. Kruse
For a variety of institutional reasons, pro-Trump and Never-Trump factions will fight to control the Republican Party, rather than to create a competitor to it.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/23/2021
Higher Ed’s Misguided Purging of Trump Supporters
by Jonathan Zimmerman
"The real threat isn’t a horde of evil Trumpers clamoring at our gates. It’s our quest to root out the enemies of democracy, which never ends well for the university."
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SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/21/2021
Every Curriculum is Ideological
by Peter Smagorinsky
"Every curriculum is ideological. And simply through its selection of materials, subjects, and perspectives, every curriculum is doctrinaire. If conservative thought is designed to promote stability, then it also supports the perpetuation of existing inequities. That sounds political and ideological to me."
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2/21/2021
Trump Was Almost Re-Elected. What Does That Say About Us?
by Walter G. Moss and Rick Shenkman
Joe Biden's popular vote and electoral margins were large, but only a small number of votes proved decisive. Moving ahead, it is necessary to understand what Trump's ongoing popularity says about America.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/18/2021
We Wouldn’t Have Had President Trump Without Rush Limbaugh
by Max Boot
Rush Limbaugh stripped conservative politics of principle, policy, and argument, broadcasting a show based on "assertion, mockery, and resentment." Donald Trump's presidency has proven that this was enough.
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SOURCE: Open Democracy
2/9/2021
Trump’s Impeachment Trial Already Shows How Far US Democracy Has Been Undermined
by Jim Sleeper
Institutional deadlock in Congress indicates a deeper and far more worrying threat to rational debate among American citizens.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
2/12/2021
Lawsuit Saves Trump White House Records
The lawsuit also required the preservation of WhatsApp messages from figures including Jared Kushner.
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