Mar 8, 2018
Is President Donald Trump a threat to American democracy? This is
explored in a new book by The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne Jr., a
regular on MSNBC, NPR’s All Things Considered and ABC News’ This
Week. He joins this week’s episode to discuss this new era of
politics and what it means for American democracy. Currently a
syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, Dionne started his
journalism career in 1975 at The New York Times before joining The
Post in 1990 as a political reporter. He has been writing his
column for The Post since 1993 — it appears in more than 240
newspapers. Dionne is the author of six other books, including “One
Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned,
the Desperate, and the Not-Yet-Deported,” “Why the Right Went
Wrong: Conservatism – From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond” and “Why
Americans Hate Politics,” which won the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. He has edited or
coedited seven volumes, including most recently “We Are The Change
We Seek,” a collection of President Barack Obama’s speeches. Dionne
also serves as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a
professor in the foundations of democracy and culture at Georgetown
University. He is visiting the Woodrow Wilson School as part of its
Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Leadership through
Mentorship Program.