Norm Ornstein

Resident congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Resident congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-author of the new best seller "One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Desperate, the Disillusioned and the Not-Yet-Deported.”

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