One of the things historians do is we look for patterns. And in many ways, Donald Trump is a very easy read,… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
To make sure Republicans stayed in power, they suppressed voting by people likely to vote Democratic, and gerrymandered states so that even… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Under Ronald Reagan, hatred of the liberal media took on a storybook quality. Reagan had honed his political skills as a spokesman… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 2000, Republican policies have suppressed Democratic voting; since 2010, Republican gerrymandering has given the Republicans a heavy systematic advantage in Congress;… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan's administration was exposed for having illegally sold arms to Iran to raise money covertly for the Contra rebels fighting… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The same Republicans who had threatened to impeach Hillary Clinton remained silent when, immediately after his surprise victory, Trump refused to abide… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Voter suppression in Florida in 2000 helped put Republican George W Bush into office despite losing the popular vote and the targeting… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Producing 1,200 words every day, when you're already working a full-time job is a lot. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Trump's alliance with Russia's Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America's own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Under Ronald Reagan, hatred of the liberal media took on a storybook quality. Reagan had honed his political skills as a spokesman for General… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Beginning in 1981, when government policies began to undermine the liberal consensus of the previous generation, wealth began to diverge. It is more unevenly… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
Mt. Rushmore was conceived in 1923 in a desperate attempt to draw tourist dollars to a state that had been rushed into the Union… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share
