It was a livelier-than-usual roundtable on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the import of Trump’s polling strength in the face of multiple trials seems to be causing panic among the press corps. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg led the feisty journalists in discussion, including Laura Barrón-López of PBS NewsHour, Eugene Daniels of Politico, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, and Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio.
Susan Glasser of The New Yorker marveled: “….Institutions are unraveling, not just the institution of the U.S. Congress, in fact, you see the Trumpification arguably of the Senate Republican conference, where the traditions have held up across-aisle-civililty much stronger until more recently. I think that this is, we’ll talk more about the Supreme Court, we’re seeing not only the hyper-politicization of our institutions but a kind of constant playing to the crowd, to the cameras, to the social media, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is a very effective example of this strand of our politics. It’s not going to go away.”
Glasser found it gross for Congressional Republicans to travel to New York to support Donald Trump on trial.
