The Abnormal Presidency

In a sense, the election was a referendum on Trump’s norm-breaking. Now, as Trump shatters yet another norm by refusing to accept the result of the vote count, the office’s structural weakness, one that allows chief executives to act in ways the framers of the Constitution never imagined, has been exposed. There are calls from Congress and from outside government to recast some norms as laws, and to craft other reforms. America must decide what it means to be presidential.

To read about the 20 most important norms that Trump has ignored or undermined, go HERE. Also included: why norms are important, other presidents who’ve broken norms, and whether we can restore norms once they’re broken.