Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
b'Show #270 | Guests: Prof. William Howell and Prof. Terry Moe | Show Summary: Donald Trump, elected in a populist uprising, has eschewed the normal conventions of politics. But the idea of what\\u2019s \\u201cnormal\\u201d needs to be examined in its own light. For example \\u2013 \\u201cnormally\\u201d, laws are drafted in Congress and sent to the President for signature. What if that were a two-way street? What if the President could propose legislation for Congress to approve? William Howell is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago; he\\u2019s the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the university\\u2019s Harris School of Public Policy. Terry Moe is at Stanford University, where he\\u2019s the Wm Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Together they\\u2019ve created an audacious proposal: what if we looked at the reality of \\u201cnormal\\u201d politics \\u2013 deadlocked, partisan, vulnerable to the worst of populist instincts \\u2013 and literally rejiggered the Constitution to fix it? Their book is Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy.'