Adam Serwer

I mean, you know, there's a great like Lincoln speech when he's a congressman about how kings were always going to war and impoverishing their own populations for personal gain.

And the entire purpose of separating the powers between the legislature and the executive was to prevent that.

And here we have a president going to war, flouting those very conventions that were built to prevent capricious, stupid wars like this from happening.

And now, you know, we're in one that puts the entire global economy at risk.

I will be honest with you, Tim.

You know, I do not trust the rest of the podcast.

No, no.

I mean, like, you know, this is my preface of saying, you know, I'm about to say something that I think is probably might be bad news, which is that I do not trust the polling.

Like, I simply do not.

like directionally, I think it's probably correct.

But the extent to which the American people are genuinely angry at this administration is something that I think we will only know after November.

I think Trump, to some extent, has made polling unreliable, not totally, like it's not something that can totally be dismissed.

But I think it is actually very difficult to gauge public sentiment from the normal tools we use to gauge public sentiment in the Trump era because he seems to activate people who are

do not show up in polls, but do show up at the ballot box.

To what extent the American people have been activated by this, the reporting from inside the administration seems to suggest that they're concerned about it.

But I don't think that they're a reliable gauge of that either.

I think I remember in 2016, they thought they were going to lose, and they very narrowly won.

So I'm going to wait to make a final judgment on where the American people are at when it comes to this stuff.

I will say that I do think if people are angry about these things, they they are right to be angry about them.

Yeah.