The online title to the latest “On Democracy” segment on Monday’s PBS News Hour gave away the slant of the newly hatched series – fear porn to attract liberal viewers during the second Trump Administration: “How the start of Trump’s second term looks like some autocracies.”
Anchor Geoff Bennett: President Trump's social media post over the weekend, "He who saves his country does not violate any law," implying that he is above the law, triggered alarm bells from experts who were already concerned about the legal and constitutional boundaries tested in President Trump's first few weeks in office. Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. She studies the rise and fall of democratic governments. Amna spoke with her earlier as part of our new series On Democracy.
. Craig Millward
