American Caesar

In this episode of the First Things Podcast:

Helen Andrews provides some historical perspective on the choice Americans must make this November—between two styles of dictator, the personalist (Trump) and the clientelist (Clinton). She reminds us that FDR combined the two styles, and she warns that just because he is not popularly remembered as a dictator doesn’t mean he wasn’t one. (It might be a mark of his success in dictating the nature of our post-constitutional order.)

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