The Mechanisms in Place
What if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave office?

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Episode Notes
On the Gist, interruption by ring knocking.
In the interview, Mike is joined by Lawrence Douglas, author of Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020, a page-turning book of what-ifs and premonitions of constitutional chaos if Trump decides to give America a hard time at the end of his term. Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He is the prize-winning author of seven books, most recently The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial.
In the spiel, undeniable progress.
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Podcast production by Margaret Kelley, Daniel Schroeder and Joel Patterson.