Donald Trump

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• SOURCE: National Journal
  10/29/2020
  

  Don't Expect a Contested Election

  by Charlie Cook

  A veteran political analyst says the likelihood of an election result close enough to be contested by Donald Trump is diminishing, and compares likely results in House and Senate races to historical patterns.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/26/2020
  

  We’re Better than This. Aren’t We?

  by Max Boot

  We certainly should be better than this.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/27/2020
  

  The Historical Case for George W. Bush Endorsing Joe Biden

  by Louis P. Masur

  Hamilton demonstrated in 1800 something that matters today: being retired from politics isn’t the same as being retired from citizenship.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/27/2020
  

  Trump as a Champion of ‘Bourgeois Values’? Not So Fast

  by Ron Radosh

  Ron Radosh argues that a longtime friend and intellectual compatriot makes an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" error in endorsing Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  10/26/2020
  

  In Battleground North Carolina, Donald Trump Is Taking Jesse Helms’s Last Stand

  Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  10/27/2020
  

  Trump's Rhetoric Casts Doubt on Election

  For months, President Trump has been casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and mail-in ballots, even though legal and historical experts say there's no cause for concern.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/27/2020
  

  Developments Since My Birth

  by Wallace Shawn

  Wallace Shawn argues Trump has given Americans license to do what they've long wanted to do: abandon the moral obligation of compassion and even the work of paying lip service to it.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/27/2020
  

  As Freshmen, They Voted for Trump. Has College Changed Their Minds?

  They were all college freshmen when Donald Trump was elected president, and they all supported the businessman in 2016. After four years or so of college, have their views changed?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/2020
  

  New York Times, CNN Sullied By ‘Anonymous’ Charade

  by Eric Wemple

  Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/28/2020
  

  It Shouldn’t Surprise Us To See A President Down In The Polls Lash Out

  by Robert Fleegler

  George H.W. Bush was no Donald Trump as his behavior was practically polite by comparison. But facing the loss of the world’s most powerful office can lead one to engage in more extreme rhetoric and behavior. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/27/2020
  

  Trump’s Supreme Court Justices Show How They Might Help Him in Contested Election

  "Now we have one Supreme Court justice identifying with Trump’s alleged horror of post-Election Night uncertainty, and two Supreme Court justices pointing the way to a state legislative hijacking of the results."

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths

  While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  10/26/2020
  

  Peniel E. Joseph: Why Ice Cube's Political Logic is so Dangerous

  by Peniel Joseph

  As flawed as the modern-day Democratic Party is on race matters it is, for better and worse, the party of anti-racism and intersectional justice in contrast to the modern day GOP.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/22/2020
  

  Presidents, Lose the Politesse. Oppose Trump’s Re-election.

  by Brian Rosenberg

  Is the potential reelection of Donald Trump a sufficient threat to the social fabric that college presidents should reject the norm of neutrality and directly oppose it? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/26/2020
  

  In Gettysburg, Trump Supporters Clash with Black Lives Matter Protesters as Election Nears

  Gettysburg's symbolic importance in the divided America of 2020 is not always rooted in the significance of the 1863 battle for the defeat of the Confederacy. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/23/2020
  

  Thomas Frank On How Populism Can Save America

  "The consensus intellectuals of the ’50s plucked the term from 19th-century obscurity and redefined it. It is their redefinition that is still with us today."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/23/2020
  

  The Politics of White Anxiety

  by Jonathan M. Metzl

  Appeals to the fears and resentments of White voters are a predictable part of our politics. Why does it remain difficult to fight those appeals?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/23/23
  

  Don’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show

  by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

  Avoiding the subject of the racist and sexist constraints on American politics ensures those limitations can derail democracy again. 

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• 10/25/2020
  

  Trump: Superhero or Superspreader?

  by Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss and Bonnie Siegler

  Inspired by the Sun King’s detractors, the White House Gift Shop’s self-parodying statements, and Trump’s own Superman fantasies, we offer a medal honoring the Super Spreader.

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• 10/25/2020
  

  Survivors, Apprentices, and Entrepreneurial Sharks: The Mark Burnett Reality TV Presidency

  by Daniel Horowitz

  Mark Burnett's reality TV empire has championed individualism and the myth of the entrepreneurial genius while reviving the celebrity and launching the political career of Donald Trump. Is 2020 the end of the line for both?