Checks and Balance: Not so great - a podcast by The Economist

President Trump’seffect on domestic policyin his first term has been modest and mostly reversible. The real impact of hisblow-it-up stylehas been felt in the corrosion of an already poisonous political culture. How has his brand of anti-politics changed America? 

Trump supporters at one of his last rallies before election day and his former press secretary Sean Spicer tell us why he deserves re-election. Lilliana Mason of the University of Maryland explains how partisanship has become radicalised.

John Prideaux,The Economist's US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent.

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