Likely policies under Trump
When it comes to the 2016 election, it’s time to say: So, that happened. While it will take years for historians and political scientists to fully digest and understand the tumultuous campaign, the immediate question people want answered is, what’s next for the country? Faculty from Harvard’s Government Department gathered Tuesday to consider some of the underlying dynamics at play in the election and what the administration of Donald Trump will portend for voting rights, foreign policy, economics, American democracy, and scholarship at institutions such as Harvard. “This electoral process has been a triumph of group tribalism, emotion, [and] passion at the expense of, or instead of, or over … ideology, policy disputes, rationality, the role of facts/information/analysis, [and] fact-based debate,” said Jennifer Hochschild, the H.L. Jayne Professor of Government, who moderated the panel. While it’s far too reductive to say the election was about feelings over facts, “What worries me … is...