PBS Guest Cools Paranoia About Trump's Imperial Presidency: 'People Have Short Memories'

Tuesday’s PBS News Hour identified guest Ilya Shapiro as a “conservative legal scholar,” a rare type of guest (most show guests are liberals are don’t get an ideological label). Also rare on the network that purports to a deeper more nuanced look at issues – the substantive discussion that took place between he and co-anchor Geoff Bennett.

That substantiveness was due almost entirely to Shapiro, who ably parried host Bennett’s attempts to get him to label Trump a unique historical threat to democracy. It was Shapiro’s second time in that position, both while a guest for PBS’s occasional “On Democracy” feature. After his impressive performance, will he be invited back a third time?