It wasn't the smiling Trump that people elected. It was the frowning, glowering, angry Donald Trump that people elected.

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• H. W. Brands:

  To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordin

• H. W. Brands:

  Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwate

• H. W. Brands:

  Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.

• H. W. Brands:

  Most presidents have not considered 100 days a significant milepost.

• H. W. Brands:

  Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accom

• H. W. Brands:

  In revering the Founders, we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make improvements

• H. W. Brands:

  Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought

• H. W. Brands:

  The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full

• H. W. Brands:

  Previous candidates who get elected are almost always sobered by the office and the responsibility

• H. W. Brands:

  The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free