“America’s core institutions may not be in perfect health,” Zack Beauchamp wrote recently in Vox, “but they seem to be functioning well enough to constrain a president who’s gone after essential parts of its democratic system.” Yet if institutions have largely kept Trump from pushing presidential power in new directions, Jesse Walker replies, they have also let him intensify authoritarian policies that already exist. For proof, look to Trump’s wars abroad and his immigration crackdown at home.
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