'Historians' Claim Obama Was ‘Bipartisan’ and ‘Extended Olive Branch’ to GOP in Op-Ed for USA Today

Nothing gets under my skin more than so-called academics rewriting Obama’s legacy into something it wasn’t. As much as even the most learned historian can have partisan biases, you expect at least some attempt at objectivity. In an article called “How America went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in one head-spinning political decade” written for USA Today, Princeton University historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer proved once again just how desperate academia is to put objectivity aside in favor of an Orwellian rewriting of history. While technically the article is an opinion piece, it is full of falsehoods and misrepresentations that you’d think would be beneath anyone who fancies themself a historian. I had high hopes when I started reading it. “How did we get from Barack Obama to Donald Trump?” they ask right off the bat. “The two presidents seem so dissimilar that it’s tempting to conclude they come from separate worlds. But in important ways, Obama set the stage for Trump.” -- More...