The polls were right, and the pundits were wrong. A Republican presidential field that was hailed as the most talented in a generation has been flummoxed, humbled, and finally beaten by Donald Trump. The Party of Lincoln is now firmly in the hands of a Manhattan billionaire, and conservatives seem hopelessly divided about how to proceed.
John Marini joins “Life, Liberty & Levin” 6.16.19
John Marini joins Mark Levin on "Life, Liberty & Levin" to discuss governmental abuse of power and its effect on individual liberty.
John Marini is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno.
Read Marini’s essay, “After Trump: The Political and Moral Legitimacy of American Government“, here at The American Mind.
His major essays at the Claremont Review of Books, including “Donald Trump and the American Crisis” and “How the Ruling Class Rules” are must reads for all those wishing to understand American politics today.
His book, Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century, is the fruit of years of study on the workings of the administrative state. Watch Marini and Claremont Senior Fellow Michael Anton discussing the book here.
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Suggested reading
Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement, examines how the Civil Rights Laws transformed American conceptions about democracy.
John Eastman delivers the closing remarks at the Claremont Institute's 2016 Constitution Day Celebration.
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