Sunday, July 17, 2016

Historians On Trump



As Donald Trump -- and now Mike Pence -- head for Cleveland, a group of prominent American  historians have decided to launch a full scale assault on Trump. With the help of filmmaker Ken Burns, they have set up a Facebook page that has been garnering millions of views.

Kenneth Jackson, David McCullough, Ron Chernow, William Leuchtenburg, Vicki Lynn Ruiz, Kai Bird, Joseph Ellis, Jonathan Alter, Alan Kraut, Sean Wilentz, Richard Moe and Todd Gitlin each offer their views on Trump.

It's scathing stuff. Is anybody listening? And is anybody asking what kind of a man Mike Pence -- who calls himself  "a Christian, a Conservative and a Republican -- in that order" -- really is?

Image: politico.com


10 comments:

Steve said...

OWen where where these guys in 2000. If Gore had been electected I beleive the world would be radically differant is a good way.

Trumps selection of Pence has me accepting Hillary is the only choice.

Owen Gray said...

It's a lesser of two evils choice, Steve. Hillary has several faults. But Trump would be a disaster -- not just for the United States -- but for the world.

Lorne said...

I just checked out a couple of the videos, Owen. A great resource! Thanks for posting about this.

Owen Gray said...

Ken Burns makes excellent documentaries, Lorne. Once again, he is doing all of us a great public service.

Dana said...

I'm working on coming to terms with the very real possibility that Trump will win.

As unthinkable as it may once have seemed it must now be thought.

I am so very glad that we don't have that odious cabal of Conservatives in charge here for they would surely have been in Trumps pants faster than a Brooklyn hooker.

Owen Gray said...

The simile is most appropriate, Dana.

The Mound of Sound said...


Trump as president. Erdogan as the new Ottoman emperor. Boris Johnson as UK foreign minister. The world beginning to melt. I've never seen anything like this - utter madness reigns. We seem to be on the brink of falling into another Dark Age only this one, ours, vastly more lethal.

the salamander said...

.. The Christian Right seems the perfect cover for the partisan hysterics and political parasites to manoeuvre behind and get entrenched.. It beggars belief that any of them hold to some noble or higher calling than getting their time in at the public trough

Whether the general population truly cares anymore, is a big question.. Regardless, any source that can portray these cretins and jackasses for who they really are.. is priceless. These thugs are immoral public servant leeches, liars and losers

Owen Gray said...

We've been to the moon, Mound. But we don't know how to save our own world.

Owen Gray said...

It's deeply troubling to see how easily a great number of evangelical souls can be bought, salamander.