What Now? The 2016 Election and the Near Future

Speaker: Joshua Mitchell, Professor of Political Theory, Georgetown University To nearly everyone's surprise, Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States. What are the larger historical movements, and what were internal crises within the Republican and Democratic parties, that allowed this to happen? Relying on political theory rather than political science, we will attempt to answer this question. Princeton University October 12, 2017