'Historians are dealing with with an as yet unsettled bubble... Are we still in the Trump era? Maybe,' notes offbrandsanchez
Photo: Manit Sriwanichpoom/Agence VU/REDUX In 2010, historian Julian E. Zelizer edited an anthology of historical essays assessing the two terms of George W. Bush, who at that point had been out of office for a little more than a year. The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment was split into a dozen chapters, each written by a different historian and focused on a specific aspect of the Bush years: Iraq, the financial crisis, culture wars, and more.
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment includes 19 essays ranging from Trump’s China policy to white supremacy, impeachment, and the pandemic. Among the standouts are Michael Kazin’s essay on the Democratic Party, Nicole Hemmer on the Trumpification of conservative media, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and movement politics.
Trump, ready to burnish his achievements and potentially position himself for another run, met with the book’s contributors on Zoom last summer. Calling in from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, he ticked off a list of hobby horses: NATO, NAFTA, “the plague — or whatever you want to call it,” the USS Gerald R. Ford. Then he took questions about his ideology, his relationship with the FBI, and on and on.
Elsewhere, Zelizer interrogates the assumption that such a thing as a Trumpian GOP even exists. He takes a more complicated tack in suggesting that Trump departed from norms while pursuing many of the party’s long-term political objectives: the disassembly of the welfare state, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich.
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