Checks and Balance: Trump! Here we go again

Checks and Balance from The Economist

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s first term in office was characterised by chaos. MAGA Republicans are already working to ensure the sequel, should there be one, is a more orderly affair. How exactly would a second Trump term be different from the first?

The Heritage Foundation’s Paul Dans gives us a glimpse of the new right’s administration-in-waiting. We find out how an act of violence created the modern civil service. And former FERC Commissioner Bernard L. McNamee envisions a conservative energy policy.

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.

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0:00.0	The pandemic.
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0:50.0	in the height of summer, July 1933.
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1:02.8	which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the new deal, he said.
1:08.1	It was the first time a president had drawn attention to his first 100 days in office
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