Will President Trump Break Democracy?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 19, 2018

David Frum, senior editor for The Atlantic, the chairman of Policy Exchange, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (Harper, 2018), looks beyond the tweets and psychological diagnoses in his analysis of President Trump's power, how he's using it and what that will mean for whoever succeeds him.

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