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Is the image of Trump with a crown, shared by the White House, just symbolic? Or reveals a change of nature in the American political system? The United States is the great laboratory of liberal democracy – but how far this experience resists when it puts it to the Trump phenomenon?
The United States is a great political laboratory of liberal democracy, with all its contradictions. With a constitution centered on the principle that no power must be absolute, they created a counterweight system designed to survive any political storm – but will they still be up to resist the Trump Hurricane?
To discuss trumps in the American constitutional tradition and federalism as a political system, we invited José Gomes André. PhD in Political Philosophy, a researcher, essayist and professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches in the areas of political philosophy, history of contemporary ideas and European studies. He is the author of several articles on federalism and political philosophy, through Kant, Rawls and, of course, James Madison.
It’s more than an interview, it’s less than a debate. It is a conversation with contradictory that, in the end, it is even the opinion of the guest that matters. Almost always about politics, sometimes about really interesting things. A journalistic project by Daniel Oliveira and João Martins. Graphic image of Vera Tavares with Tiago Pereira Santos and music by Mário Laginha. Subscribe (NO, E) and hear more episodes:
