Published:
May 14, 2020
LBJ's Donald Kettl talks to Ron Brownstein of The Atlantic about how President Trump is using the tools of national authority to advance Republican priorities while weakening Democrats' capacity to impede them.
"What we're having is a wedge that is being driven deeper and deeper between the federal government and some of the states, and, in the states, between Republican governors and Democratic mayors and Democratic cities," he said. "It is a deep, profound, and growing chasm that is almost unprecedented in American history."