Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Failed in One Critical Way

The fatal flaw in Trump’s authoritarian playbook

Speaking for the Tuesday podcast "Right Now" with Perry Bacon, Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan, discussed President Donald Trump's efforts to control government institutions, noting there's a major flaw in the president's authoritarian agenda. "You wrote this piece called 'The Authoritarian Checklist,' and you were arguing that we had now entered a competitive authoritarian period — that we lost democracy, a…

Transcript: Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Failed in One Critical Way

Political scientist Donald Moynihan argues that Trump has consolidated power on many fronts, but has largely failed in his efforts to take control of the U.S. election process.