I Predict That Colleges And Universities Will Be Offering Courses On.....

[global1]

Trump - long after he's gone.

They will be studying all aspects of Trump and his presidency and all of his failures.

One can learn a lot by studying 'how not to do things'.

[RKP5637]

1. Absolutely! He will be a case study, as you say, and also a mental health case study. n/t

[marybourg]

2. Fodder for historians for the next century.

[pwb]

3. They should study how privileged kids parents are buying their kids educations?

Because the head does not match the degrees.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. "From Hitler to Trump: Studies in Fascism" nt

[empedocles]

7. hitler studies worked for Germany

[Initech]

5. Now class, just remember, whatever Trump did, do the opposite!

[Stallion]

6. I Think It Would Be More Interesting to Trace the Development of Trumpism

Huey Long
George Wallace
Nixon
the Nixon trash Stone Manaford
the Southern Strategy trash Lee Atwater
the Voting Rights Act destruction
and the funding of these right wing ideological movements

you can't understand Trumpism unless you understand the long term factors that produced Trump--because they ain't going away on November 4, 2020. I think American Fascism would be a great course description

On the other hand, you could spend 4 years discussing the damage done by Trump to our democracy

[JI7]

8. Trump is part of a larger and longer problem with racism in this country

And in Republican party when they embraced the southern strategy.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. Think my head might explode...

I’m imagining home work ... listening to his speeches which average...what?...3-4 days.

Teacher: “Ok class for tomorrow’s assignment listen to these two rally speeches by trump, note the differences and write an essay on why they seemingly present 2 sides of the same subject. Note the demeanor and language he uses in the speeches, make sure you include those 2 subjects in your essay.”

Class: Collective groan.

[malthaussen]

10. "Great man" history is pretty much out of fashion...

... among historians, although politicians are particularly fond of it, considering themselves de facto Great Men.

A course on the utter breakdown of American Democracy in the first two decades of the 20th Century (so far) will include far more than just a rehash of Donald Trump's tweets. This is a systemic failure across a broad spectrum of institutions and institutional morality, and a competent course will address that.

-- Mal

[Hoyt]

11. trump's true value is as an anti-mentor.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. I'm inclined to think he ought to

be relegated to the dust-bin of history, and not mentioned again until he dies in prison and is buried in a pauper's grave.

[Klaralven]

13. Although I couldn't recommend taking out a student loan to study Trump

when you could just study his tweets on the Wayback Machine.

The importance of Trump will depend on the next administration. I don't think that Warren Harding was ever a popular topic of study.

[aidbo]

14. I would be more interested in studying the reaction - from the media et al - to burgeoning fascism.