Eric Posner on What the Next Few Years Under Trump May Look Like

What Will a Trump Presidency Look Like?

Eric Posner is wary about making predictions about Donald Trump’s presidency. Understandably enough. The University of Chicago law professor admits to underestimating Trump as a candidate, and he’s not about to make the same mistake as Trump’s administration gets underway.

But Posner does have a good sense of what it takes for a president to enact his preferred policies, and insists the brand of populist bombast that Trump excels in will not do the trick. He argues the new president will need to exercise “bureaucratic leadership,” which means “being able to motivate a large group of people, and getting them to do what you want them to do.”

“Whether he is smart and disciplined enough to do that, I don’t know,” he said in an interview a few days before the inauguration.

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