Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.
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The Jan 6 "stop the steal" protests happened because Trump encouraged them. He told his followers, "be there, will be wild." In his speech that day at the Ellipse he said, "We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Jan 6 "stop the steal" protests happened because Trump encouraged them. He told his followers, "be there, will be wild." In his speech that day at the Ellipse he said, "We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
And Eric Arnesen's critique of the "long civil rights" framework.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And Eric Arnesen's critique of the "long civil rights" framework.
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People forget that Trump spent most of his first term doing "rallies", to no real purpose to an audience he had long since captured. The fact that he's not doing them now may actually explain why his presidenting has become so much more destructive: this time, he's not being kept busy doing nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
People forget that Trump spent most of his first term doing "rallies", to no real purpose to an audience he had long since captured. The fact that he's not doing them now may actually explain why his presidenting has become so much more destructive: this time, he's not being kept busy doing nothing.
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Why else was he holding the “rally”? He had already lost. He had no intention of ceding power.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Why else was he holding the “rally”? He had already lost. He had no intention of ceding power.
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Later in the speech, he said of prospect of a Biden presidency--remember Biden was to be inaugurated on Jan 20, two weeks later--who convincingly won in the popular vote and the Electoral College, "You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have. And we can't let that happen."
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Later in the speech, he said of prospect of a Biden presidency--remember Biden was to be inaugurated on Jan 20, two weeks later--who convincingly won in the popular vote and the Electoral College, "You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have. And we can't let that happen."
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Schumer's a coward. Shaheen & co. soiled themselves. Yes, yes to all of it. But why don't Murkowski, Tillis, & company even get asked questions? Why do we have zero expectation of them? Journalists don't even bother trying. We have accepted Murc's Law as a constitutional provision. It's maddening.
These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.
🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Schumer's a coward. Shaheen & co. soiled themselves. Yes, yes to all of it. But why don't Murkowski, Tillis, & company even get asked questions? Why do we have zero expectation of them? Journalists don't even bother trying. We have accepted Murc's Law as a constitutional provision. It's maddening.
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Here's a snippet from the manuscript with the translation of Genesis 13, verses 14-15 (And God said to Abram, "All that the light touches is our kingdom..."). The whole book that the article appears in is free here: doi.org/10.11647/OBP...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here's a snippet from the manuscript with the translation of Genesis 13, verses 14-15 (And God said to Abram, "All that the light touches is our kingdom..."). The whole book that the article appears in is free here: doi.org/10.11647/OBP...
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"What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter... life is full of tasks that need doing, and you are the person who does them." 💔
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter... life is full of tasks that need doing, and you are the person who does them." 💔
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When the President of the United States gathers thousands of his followers and lies about a "stolen election" in the most incendiary way, and even urges them to head to the Capitol (and lies about going with them), how could one argue that he didn't encourage the insurrection?
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When the President of the United States gathers thousands of his followers and lies about a "stolen election" in the most incendiary way, and even urges them to head to the Capitol (and lies about going with them), how could one argue that he didn't encourage the insurrection?