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Topic: Founding Fathers

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order establishing the Energy Dominance Council led by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in the Oval Office at the White House on February 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's First Law: There is no law

Andrew O'Hehir
Kamala Harris, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The election the founding fathers wanted

Matthew Rozsa
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents during a campaign event on March 12, 2016 in Dayton, Ohio. (Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images)

MAGA's "dissonance" shocks experts

Matthew Rozsa
Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Mike Lofgren
Cool Founding Fathers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Founding fathers: Way too woke?

Kirk Swearingen
James Madison | US Constitution (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How James Madison became a detective

Matthew Rozsa
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Biden is like the founding fathers

Matthew Rozsa
The Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793. Carriages rumbled through the streets to pick up the dying and the dead. Woodcut shows Stephen Girard on errand of mercy. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

The 1793 pandemic that foreshadowed 2020

Matthew Rozsa
Signing of the Declaration of Independence (Getty Images/Keith Lance)

Why France helped the Founding Fathers

Willard Sterne Randall
Masked George Washington Crossing the Delaware (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Would Washington have worn a mask?

Kristin E. Tremper
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Donald Trump (AP Photo/WikiCommons/John Trumbull/John Vanderlyn)

Founders' flaw: They expected decency

David Masciotra
President Donald Trump at the White House, Oct. 24, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Impeachment is better than exile

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Constitution won't save us from Trump

Cody Cain
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Wikimedia)

Would the founding fathers impeach?

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Can Trump be impeached and reelected?

Austin Sarat - The Conversation
George Washington is the figure standing on the dais. The central figures of the portrait are Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Painting by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952).

The Founding Fathers on impeachment

Clark D. Cunningham - The Conversation
James Madison; Thomas Jefferson

How the Framers limited prez's powers

Eliga Gould - The Conversation
(Getty/Salon)

Donald Trump, Hamilton's nightmare

Chris Gay - WhoWhatWhy
(Getty/Salon)

Did Founding Fathers anticipate Trump?

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Nicolas Cage in "National Treasure" (Walt Disney Pictures)

Have a very Nicolas Cage 4th of July

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin; Mike Pence; Robert Mueller (AP/Getty)

Is Trump being blackmailed?

Chauncey DeVega
Ron DeSantis (Getty/Drew Angerer)

DeSantis can't run from racist past

Matthew Chapman - Alternet
George Washington; Andrew Johnson; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

Trump's unpardonable endgame

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
George Washington; Thomas Paine; Donald Trump (Getty/Shutterstock/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump's insult to the Founding Fathers

Jeff Biggers
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