Adam Tooze
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's spectacular.
Think Democrats.
We know it.
Think Schumer.
Think Democratic leadership.
Every bit as bad as that.
Plus more division.
It's not a done deal, but I love the basic logic.
One of the things that's really shocked me is, as a kind of action-reaction kind of logic, is the promotion of Ursula von der Leyen.
In the first term, Ivan's totally right.
They had no idea who she was.
They just couldn't process the fact that Europe has this complex polity.
This time around, Luttwik on stage literally said, you know this way, the way this goes.
We bully.
You agree to be bullied.
Then he literally said, Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump get together and do a deal.
And it was like, what has happened here?
This is so strange.
And the Biden people, of course, prepared this because they really deliberately promoted Brussels and the commission and von der Leyen into the telephone number that you call in Europe.
There's no question now.