Here are your show notes for today’s class:

Predicting the future of the presidency with the ‘Pendulum Theory’

https://youtu.be/jvcyq91KtM0

OBAMA-BIDEN MIRROR WOODROW WILSON

(a.k.a. The Progressives)

You want a more ‘progressive’ America? Careful what you wish for.

Voters should remember what happened under Woodrow Wilson.

How Woodrow Wilson’s Hidden Illness Left America with no President for Over a Year

Months after contracting the Spanish flu, Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving his wife and doctor to run the country  

Prelude to the Red Scare: The Espionage and Sedition Acts When America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation’s new anti-sedition laws

Sedition Act of 1918 — Wikipedia Limiting Speech in War Time: Sedition Act of 1918 — slide presentation Consequences of War — slide presentation ‘What We Seek Is the Reign of Law’: The Legalism of the Paris Peace Settlement after the Great War Wilson’s Raiders The Palmer Raids: America’s Forgotten Reign of Terror

The raids constituted a horrific, shameful episode in American history, one of the lowest moments for liberty since King George III quartered troops in private homes.

Palmer Raids & Election of 1920 — slide presentation

WOODROW WILSON MIRRORED JOHN ADAMS

(a.k.a. The Federalists)

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) — National Archives The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) — National Constitution Center Alien and Sedition Acts — Wikipedia Alien and Sedition Acts –Britannica Alien and Sedition Acts — slide presentation John Adams: Alien and Sedition Act — slide presentation

THE NAZI’s MIRRORED WOODROW WILSON

Reichstag Fire — Wikipedia Reichstag Fire — Britannica Night of the Long Knives — Wikipedia Night of the Long Knives — Britannica Kristallnacht — Wikipedia Kristallnacht — Britannica

THE PROGRESSIVES NOW FEAR THEIR OWN LEGACY

Woodrow Wilson’s Great Mistake The Alien Enemies Act Is Outdated, Dangerous, and Ripe for Abuse

Donald Trump has threatened to use the 1798 law to conduct mass deportations with little due process. Congress should repeal it.

WHILE BOASTING ABOUT IT AT THE SAME TIME

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RECOMMENDED READING

American Progressivism: A Reader Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (American Intellectual Culture) Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism