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King Obama, King Trump: The Dangers of an Imperial Presidency

Jan 20, 2017
54:46
Gene Healy joins us for a special Inauguration Day episode of Free Thoughts. We assess Barack Obama’s legacy as President of the United States and think about what we might expect in the coming years from President Trump.

What will Obama’s presidential legacy be? How will recent expansions of executive power under Obama affect the actions of a Donald Trump administration?

How hawkish has Obama’s foreign policy been? What happened to the anti-war movement during Obama’s presidency? Can we expect them to come back during a Trump administration?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Gene Healy’s article in the February 2017 issue of Reason is “Goodbye, Obama”.

Other episodes of Free Thoughts that are mentioned in this episode:
America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power with Gene Healy
What Are the Risks of Terrorism? with John Mueller

Healy mentions Jack Goldsmith and Matthew Waxman’s “The Legal Legacy of Light-Footprint Warfare” (2016).

He also mentions Party in the Street (2015) by Michael T. Heaney and Fabio Rojas, National Security and Double Government (2014) by Michael Glennon, and “The Two Presidencies” (1966) by Aaron Wildavsky.

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