2024 ELECTION: “Legendary presidential historian Jon Meacham spoke with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Friday evening about 2023 in retrospective — and the significance of former President Donald Trump’s continued hold over the Republican Party…
‘It’s against my usual standard to say something is unprecedented,’ said Meacham. ‘As you were saying, so much of this was. And to stand on that for ceremony’s sake isn’t wise at all. You have to follow the evidence, and the evidence leads us to a former President of the United States under serial criminal indictment, an unfolding crisis in trust in democratic institutions, lowercase d. And that former president using rhetoric that comes straight from the Third Reich as he mounts a campaign to be re-elected. Most polls show him to be firmly in control of one of the two major parties in the United States.’”
-Matthew Chapman, “Trump winning GOP nod would tell us all we need to know about Republican voters: historian,” rawstory.com, December 22, 2023