Hedrick Smith: The Outlook for American Democracy

We remember Abraham Lincoln as a great president, but he was also a great student of history and nearly a century ago, he predicted the presidency of Donald Trump. Not by name, of course. But Lincoln knew history and human nature well enough to warn us that someday America would see the rise of a strong-man leader hungry for absolute power. Someone like Caesar or Napoleon. Donald Trump is the kind of threat Lincoln had in mind – stealing power from Congress, demonizing federal judges who rule against him, purging the government of those who question his facts and his policies, attacking leading law firms and universities, sending troops into Los Angeles, bombing Iran, playing havoc with the Constitution. Hear straight talk from Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Hedrick Smith who covered dictators in Moscow, Cairo and Eastern Europe for The New York Times.