Reflection assignment 4

Reflection Assignment

Read this article from the New York Times by Rick Perlstein on how historians of American conservatism failed to understand the rise of Trump/ Trumpsim  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/magazine/i-thought-i-understood-the-american-ri

Answer

What is Rick Perlstein's argument? Drawing from Perlstein, What are some of the ways that historians have understood American conservatism? What shaped their understanding? How did their understanding change? Why (does Perlstein argue) did they fail to understand the rise of Trumpism?  

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