Will America's Institutions Survive President Trump?

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🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Eight months into the Trump administration, we're taking stock: What is shaping up to be President Trump's effect on America’s institutions? Will subsequent presidents preserve or disregard the norms he's tossed aside? What are his political allies and opponents learning from his actions? Jack Goldsmith, author of The Atlantic's October cover story, explores these and many other questions with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Golberg. Then, Matt Thompson and Alex Wagner discuss Trump's impact on the GOP with longtime Republican strategist Mindy Finn and The Atlantic's politics and policy editor, Yoni Appelbaum. For links and other show notes, go here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Already eight months into the administration of President Donald Trump,
0:04.4	our commander-in-chief has broken countless norms.
0:07.6	But has he also broken the Republican Party?
0:10.4	Has he broken the presidency?
0:14.0	This is The Atlantic. Calling in from New York is my dear co-host, Alex Wagner.
0:35.0	Hello, Alex.
0:37.0	Hello, my dear co-host, Matt Thompson.
0:39.0	Alex, I wanted to ask you a question.
0:42.0	Ask away, Matt.
0:43.0	Do you remember the period before President Donald Trump?
0:48.0	Was there a time when I was not shackled to my iPhone, when I wasn't
0:53.7	wasn't constantly looking at push alerts when I wasn't constantly
0:57.2	debating the future of this country I can't remember that time that but I
1:02.1	hear from outside sources that a time before this chaos
1:06.5	didn't in fact exist where I used to eat meals in peace and did not have crazy
1:11.8	acid reflux all the time.
1:14.1	Too much information I know.
1:16.7	I harbor a distant memory of this time and so I went,
1:20.5	I went excavating in our in our large and ancient libraries for evidence. I did. I
1:28.8	excavated headlines from from old newspapers from the time before President Trump.
1:34.8	And in fact, I perused headlines from around this time
1:39.0	in the year after presidential elections.
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