I am looking forward to your interview with Garrett Graff. One of the reasons to study history is to see not just our errors, but to see how we got where we are now. If Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon would Trump have been so reckless. The imperial presidency grew out of the Nixon era and emboldened all the republicans who followed him because there were no consequences for his transgressive behavior. We can go back further to the red scares to see how demonization of the opposition in the name of American populism was present even in the earliest days of the republic. Trump didn’t spring miraculously from nowhere. He followed the footsteps of those who preceded him.
I am looking forward to your interview with Garrett Graff. One of the reasons to study history is to see not just our errors, but to see how we got where we are now. If Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon would Trump have been so reckless. The imperial presidency grew out of the Nixon era and emboldened all the republicans who followed him because there were no consequences for his transgressive behavior. We can go back further to the red scares to see how demonization of the opposition in the name of American populism was present even in the earliest days of the republic. Trump didn’t spring miraculously from nowhere. He followed the footsteps of those who preceded him.
Good observations. I’ll be interested to hear what you think of the Graff interview.
Good journalism these days seems like that little bit of grass growing out of a crack in the concrete.