EP. 007 - Trump, Burke, and the Battle Over America's Real Constitution

In this bold episode of Modern Age, Dan McCarthy brings together two unexpected figures: Donald Trump and Edmund Burke. The goal is to uncover what is really at stake in today's constitutional and institutional debates. Ten years after Trump came down the escalator and now six months into his second term, Dan explores how Trump’s disruption of elite institutions mirrors Burke’s 18th-century critique of concentrated power in the British monarchy. Using Burke's analysis of formal and informal a...