Jill Lepore Talks with Nick Bryant

Jill Lepore’s day job is as a professor of American history at Harvard University, and she’s also a staff writer for The New Yorker. When Trump won the 2016 election, Lepore had a ringside seat among his campaign managers: “No-one said a word about the US or its government or the common good. Sitting in that room, watching, was like being a pig at a butcher’s convention. There was much talk about the latest technology in knives and the best and tastiest cuts of meat but no-one pretended to bear any love for the pig.” Has the butchers’ convention reconvened? Nick Bryant finds out.