On this Presidents’ Day, or Contrarians’ Day as we’re calling it, Jen Rubin and Heather Cox Richardson discuss how the once taken-for-granted principles of presidential honesty and integrity—mythologized since George Washington and the cherry tree—became eroded in recent decades by cynical (Republican) politics to a present in which the president and his party can lie to the American people with impunity.
Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of American history and a prolific author. Her Letters from an American newsletter educates millions of daily readers about the historical precedent or, increasingly, the unprecedented nature of our political landscape.
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