Lawfare Archive: David Frum on Threats to Democracy in the Trump Era
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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From February 10, 2018: In his recent New York Times bestseller “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” David Frum, senior editor of The Atlantic, lays out a compelling account of how President Donald Trump’s tendencies could push the United States toward the illiberalism that many Americans believe the republican system of government to be immune to. In an event on Feb. 7 at the Brookings Institution, Frum sat down with Jonathan Rauch, Elaine Kamarck, and Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes for a conversation and Q&A on the book and Trump’s threats to democracy.
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| 1:50.3 | I'm Ben Greene, intern at Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare Archive on November 11th, |
| 1:56.6 | 2004. Former President Donald Trump's victory in last week's presidential election has ensured that he will return to the Oval Office for a second term. Scholars such as Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Witters |
| 2:02.5 | have begun contemplating the dangers of a second Trump presidency |
| 2:05.9 | for democratic ideals in the United States. |
| 2:09.4 | For today's archive episode, |
| 2:10.8 | I selected an episode from February 10, 2018, |
| 2:15.2 | in which Witters, Jonathan Rauch and Elaine Kamag sat down for a conversation with David Frum |
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