Thomas Mann is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and a resident scholar at the University of California. Berkeley. He is the co-author of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, It's Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism and One Nation after Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
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