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Trump Doesn’t Stand For Things. He Stands Against Them.

ByGary Doan

Donald Trump’s strategy has never been about promoting a set of policies, an ideology, or even a party. It’s not even entirely about promoting himself or his brand. It hasn’t been about promoting any of these things, exactly, because it hasn’t been nearly as much about promotion as vilification. He hasn’t ascended to the heights…

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Think the US is more polarized than ever? You don’t know history

ByGuest Post

Union dead at Gettysburg, July 1863. National Archives, Timothy H. O’Sullivan photographer Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the…