Are the Progressives and the Conservatives in the Pot?

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I think both the progressives and the conservatives are under a delusion, just as you say, that we don't need to take measures to distinguish a tyrannous majority from a reasonable one. But we do. And a lot of our politics is about that difference, when you come down to it. Trampi can setly be a demagogue. Now i think that's the case with trump, that he just saw the opportunity to hijack the republican party. But it could have been a democratic party. So attributing to him a set of beliefs is finding permanence in something that's pretty contingent ery. Well, trampes may be a special case. I don't think

Harvey Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. One of the old guard of American conservative thought, he has taught at Harvard since 1962, and counts among his former students Andrew Sullivan, Francis Fukuyama, and Bill Kristol.

In this week’s conversation, Harvey Mansfield and Yascha Mounk discuss the nature of American liberalism, Donald Trump’s effect on conservatism, and Alexis de Tocqueville’s enduring relevance.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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