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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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SOURCE: The Bulwark
2/12/2021
What Good Is Impeachment, Anyway?
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
The Constitution sets forth an expectation that Congress will check the power of the executive, through impeachment if necessary. The fact that it has failed to do so in th past doesn't excuse inaction in the present.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/15/2021
McConnell’s Task: Purging the Crackpots and Bigots
by Kevin M. Schultz
William F. Buckley Jr. was able to advance conservative ideas by publicly dissociating from antisemites, Ayn Rand cultists and John Birch conspiracists on the right-wing fringes. Mitch McConnell's problem leading America's conservative party is that all those groups are back with a vengeance.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/17/2021
Watch the Trump Era in Atlantic City End With 3,000 Sticks of Dynamite
“This is not about President Trump, because, quite frankly, the people here in the great city of Atlantic City knew how the presidency was going to play out on a national stage because we’re one of the cities that knew him best,” Mayor Marty Small said after the implosion.
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SOURCE: Politico
2/13/2021
‘This Acquittal Sends Three Dangerous Messages to Future Presidents’
Politico's roundup of expert opinion on the failure of the Senate to get the supermajority needed to convict Trump includes thoughts from historians Mary Frances Berry, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Keisha N. Blain and Allan J. Lichtman.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/16/2021
Convicting Trump would have Required Accepting a Half-Century of Republican Guilt
by Steven M. Gillon
Senate Republicans could not convict Donald Trump without also accepting their party's collective blame for the politics of white male resentment and Christian nationalism that the party has cultivated for decades before MAGA.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/16/2021
Congress Must Invoke the 14th Amendment to Stop Trump from Running Again
by Tom Coleman and John C. Danforth
A former Congressman and former Senator, both Republicans from Missouri, demand that Congress invoke the 14th Amendment's provisions on insurrection to bar Donald Trump from holding office in the future.
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SOURCE: Bill Moyers
2/16/2021
When a Trial is Not a Trial
by James D. Zirin
Attorney James Zirin, author of a book on Trump's history of litigation, critiques the second impeachment trial as a sham.
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2/14/2021
What Becomes of a Broken Party?
by James Robenalt
The Republican Party seems to be refusing the opportunity to save itself by rejecting Trumpism. His acquittal in a second Senate trial means he will be free to demand the party bend to his will or be destroyed.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/9/2021
Would the Founders Convict Trump and Bar Him From Office?
by Eli Merritt
"Today’s Republican senators must at least be willing to break with their party and disappoint some of their constituents — and, yes, perhaps lose their jobs in coming elections — to serve the larger interest of protecting the nation."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/10/2021
The Landmark Klan Free-Speech Case Behind Trump’s Impeachment Defense
Though Trump’s impeachment is not a criminal trial, his lawyers in their legal briefs referenced Brandenburg v. Ohio, arguing that Trump didn’t direct his supporters to attack the Capitol.
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2/14/2021
Trumpism after Trump: Beyond Fascism
by Gavriel Rosenfeld
Understanding the future of the far-right grievance politics catalyzed by the Trump presidency, it might be helpful to think of it as "MAGA-ism," a 21st century American phenomenon.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/9/2021
January 6 Was Just One Day in a Sustained Campaign
by Richard H. Pildes
A constitutional law professor argues for a broad perspective in the Senate trial; the questions at stake for the rule of law and Trump's accountability for a months-long effort to undermine democracy are too important to focus only on January 6.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/9/2021
Trump’s Lawyers Lost the Day
by David Frum
David Frum argues that Trump's lawyers ignored history, contradicted their own arguments, and made it impossible for Republican senators to claim any motive other than political expediency when they vote to acquit.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
2/9/2021
Trump Probably Won't Speak at His Impeachment Trial. That May be a Good Thing
Columnist Hayes Brown suggests that there's enough evidence Democrats can bring against Trump without giving him a public platform to espouse conspiracy theories. German authorities came to regret giving Hitler such a platform in 1924, as summarized by historian Volker Ullrich.