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Julia Azari

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Backlash Presidents

How three eras of racial progress gave way to the presidencies of Johnson, Nixon, and Trump.

by Julia Azari via Princeton University Press on September 30, 2025
Politics Is More Partisan Now, But It’s Not More Divisive

And anyway, agreement between the two parties has often masked serious problems.

by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on January 19, 2018
Trump Is A 19th-Century President Facing 21st-Century Problems

His hands-off approach to policy-making and moral leadership hearkens back to much earlier times.

by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on August 28, 2017

Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History

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The Treacherous Allure of the “Polarization” Dogma

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.

by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on September 14, 2025

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