Checks and Balance: American carnage - a podcast by The Economist

President Trump stood on the Capitol steps at his inauguration and promised to stop “this American carnage.” Four years later aviolent mobstormed the Capitol building in an attempt to overturn his election defeat. Will this jarring spectacle makebreaking with Mr Trumpeasier for Republicans? 

We hear from historian Rick Perlstein,The Economist’sWashington bureau chief James Astill and Washington correspondent Idrees Kahloon.

John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor.

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