What a long, strange 100 days it’s been. To make sense of what’s happened since the dawn of the Trump regime, all those days-that-seem-like-years ago, we just talked with 1,400 Ink readers and Julian Zelizer, a professor of history at Princeton University and a great expert on the political history of the United States.
Americans have been obsessed with the notion of a president’s first 100 days since F.D.R. moved to stop the Great Depression with a series of fast, unyielding changes that set the model for what presidential power was capable of. Zelizer told us about how the slow erosion of our institutions over the last century has resulted in Trump’s rise, why the United States has remained so vulnerable to demagoguery, how illiberalism is as American as apple pie, and how the power of the people — the only thing that ever works against authoritarianism — can dig us out of this.
Want to know more? Prof. Zelizer now has a newsletter, The Long View, which you can find here on Substack.
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