Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to the Atlantic. He is co-author of It's Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism and the forthcoming One Nation after Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not Yet Deported.
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