Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary
The problem for Trump, argued , a professor of US history at Western Washington University, is that the revolution was a rebellion 鈥渁gainst tyranny and arbitrary power鈥 of the type that he is now trying to wield.
鈥淎ny continuity between the actual political meaning of the revolution and what Trump is doing to our constitution is false,鈥 he said. 鈥淎nybody who teaches about the American revolution knows that the thing the founders feared the most is someone like 鈥 someone who would be lawless and and have arbitrary power, that鈥檚 not limited by the rule of law.鈥