
Richard Ford talks to Alex Clark about his latest novel, Be Mine - a father and son road trip across America.
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The Importance of American Institutions
I have a faith in American institutions. Trump, a madman basically, but a bad madman is I think an aberration as a leader. He's not aberration as an American citizen by any means. They would like nothing better than to have the institutions of the government and the republic torn down and replaced by they know not what. But I don't think that's going to happen frankly. Bad things are happening on the state level. Books are being burned. Abortion is being forbidden. Lives are being lost.
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