When the president is more like a little kid than a leader
Published:
April 24, 2020
In his review of Toddler in Chief, a new book by Daniel W. Drezner, LBJ Professor Jeremi Suri looks at the ways the Founders constructed American democracy and its current state under the Trump administration. "Americans, and the rest of the world, cannot afford to have a toddler in charge much longer. This must be a one-time mistake, an exception to the pattern of presidential selection begun more than two centuries ago," he writes. "Can we do this as a society? That remains to be seen."