Jon Meacham: America’s in ‘Moral Crisis’ Because Trump Is an ‘Authoritarian Galloping at the Highest Level’

EXCERPT:

MEACHAM: “The Founders would have been surprised, I think, that it took this long.”
DUTHIERS: “Really?”
KING: "For what? For what?”
MEACHAM: “For there to be an authoritarian galloping --”
DUTHIERS: “Really.”
MEACHAM: “-- at the highest level.”
KING: "And it took this long.”
MEACHAM: “It really did, because think about it. The Constitution is incredibly unwieldy. It's unwieldy because they assume that most of what we would want to do would be wrong. It's a theological document in many ways. It's based on the idea that we're driven by appetite and ambition more often than we're driven by grace and generosity.”