Opinion | What Trump doesn’t understand about U.S. history

Nothing makes the case for overhauling our teaching of basic U.S. history and civics like the 45th president.Trump describes history as a saga of heroes and villains, good vs. evil, pure and simple. The United States is the embodiment of good, “the most exceptional nation in the history of the world,” he said last week, whatever that means. Studying history is supposed to instill love of country.

Patriotic education, as Trump conjures it, features the stories of exemplary champions, conquerors and explorers — “some of the most incredible people who ever lived,” he extolled at the Archives. It teaches history in the spirit of admiring uplift cultivated at the nation’s founding by George Washington’s first biographer Parson Weems, with little room for complexity or imperfection or tragedy.

None of this has anything to do with history and everything to do with Trump. American government is actually founded on the ambivalent principle that there is good and evil in everyone. “If men were angels,” James Madison “no government would be necessary.” The Constitution prescribes a system of checks and balances to deter any would-be tyrant, a figure the Framers knew the United States might very well produce.The Constitution also tolerated and even protected slavery, the source of the civil war that abolished it. The post-war constitutional amendments establishing full legal and voting rights were largely undone in the assault on Reconstruction, a reversal still at the core of our present national crisis.

Trump’s cynicism is the ultimate monument of his administration. No president in our history has so brazenly undermined the Constitution’s checks and balances. No president has welcomed an authoritarian Russian regime’s systematic efforts to poison the wells of American democracy. True to form, Trump saw fit to kick off his Potemkin village of a history conference with yet another smearing of Biden and liberals as accomplices of anti-Americanism.

tRump does not know history as he does not read plus use others to get him through school. He hears and listen only to himself.

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I’m trying to understand how you can accuse Trump of attempting to undermine checks and balances, while Democrats are actively attempting to eliminate the filibuster. What happened to objective journalism? Journalism has turned in to nothing but ill informed opinion pieces

Uneducated idiots

He’s not good on Geography either. Or Science. English - nope. Dumb all rounder really. O’h great at deceit. There, found something he knows about.

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