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My De-Trumping is all about gaining historical perspective on how we got to the present moment and what the Democratic Party has to do to both move the country forward AND win the 2022 elections. And there is no better way to do that than dive into Rick Perlstein’s four volume masterpiece of our nation’s political and social history from Goldwater to Reagan. I lived through this period (born in 1950) and was reading progressive journalism that whole time (my lefty parents subscribed to The Nation, The New Republic, Ramparts, I.F.Stone’s Weekly, etc.), but wow, the stuff Perlstein digs up that you didn’t know about at the time it was happening is astonishing!