His 2024 book, "The Presidents and the People," tells the story of five presidents who pushed the boundaries of executive power and the citizens who pushed back. The newspaper editors who fight back against Adams really use that moment in order to turn the election of 1800 into at least in part a referendum on the idea of, is there a right to dissent? And I know a lot of people -- I know that a lot of people do as well, but it just -- I think that if you talk to people who are at the No Kings rally, they say, why are you here, I think that it would be ironically very similar to my own concerns.
Author: Judy Woodruff, Sam Lane
Published at: 2026-04-02 22:20:23
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