8 - Damage Assessment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2022
Summary
The day after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, I attended a panel discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. The panel included liberals, moderates, and conservatives. The moderator asked them why the election turned out as it did and what the Trump administration was likely to do during the next four years. The panelists offered a lot of different answers, and the debate was lively. But in the end, they all agreed on one thing. Given Trump’s promises to lay siege to the deep state, the next four years might be one of the toughest tests ever for America’s political institutions. They wondered how well the institutional guardrails of American politics and democracy would hold.
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- Institutions under SiegeDonald Trump's Attack on the Deep State, pp. 191 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022