Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
“One of the themes recurring in conservative media these days is the normalization of Donald Trump by historical analogy. This kind of sweeping arrogation of power, we’re told by Wall Street Journal editorialists, columnist George Will, and other conservative commentators, has ample precedents in the records of progressive presidents particularly: Woodrow Wilson, both Roosevelts, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. So why this harping on poor Donald Trump? Trump’s overreaching claims to power, Will tells us, ‘is an institutional consequence of progressivism.’ Journal editorialists note that ‘Mr. Trump is stretching laws to see what he can get away with, but so have other recent Presidents,’ including both Obama and Biden. As historical analysis, this is malicious piffle.” (02/17/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-17-trump-man-madison-warned-us-against/