The Left of Center Is a Party of the College-Educated Elites

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If Donald Trump were to become president of the United States, again, I think we would have very early on a profound constitutional crisis. There's going to be no more Mr Nice guy, no more. Michael Flynn will probably be brought in again as national security advisor,. A true believer who will just be a yes man will be put in charge of the justice department. We'd be on the road to Erdogan or Bon or Modi, something like that. It would test the strength of American institutions and the courage of American politicians, judges and justices to a degree that we've never seen before in American history.

In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what’s behind a deepening global ‘democratic recession’.

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