Summary of Julian E. Zelizer's The Presidency of Donald J. Trump

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Trump presidency was not an exception to the Republican Party’s transformation, but rather the culmination of more than three decades of evolution. The party had radicalized in its ideology as well as in its approach to partisan warfare long before Trump came to office. #2 Asymmetric polarization is the theory that since the 1970s, the Republican Party has moved much further to the right than the Democrati