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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Thomas Byrne Edsall: American Democracy at the Crossroads (EXPLICIT CONTENT)
Description: As Donald Trump seeks the presidency again, one of the country's most insightful political observers wonders whether American politics has already passed the point of no return in terms of its divided politics and culture and decayed social order.New York Times columnist Thomas Byrne Edsall, author of the new book The Point of No Return: American Democracy at the Crossroads, fears the country might be headed over a cliff and argues that the 2016 election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War.As the country pr...