Anand Giridharadas

Donald Trump was fighting for cuts.

To snap.

So he's cutting back that.

And in the same week, he announced a deal that in theory would make Ozempic and other weight loss drugs in theory more affordable to people.

Now that drug's been very helpful to people.

It has a lot of health benefits, obviously.

But it felt like a biopsy of America in 2025.

Yeah.

cut food aid for people and make it easier to access drugs that make you feel less hungry.

Yeah.

And here's, you know, I think when you think of that phrase behind you, we can do hard things, there's a lot of ways to interpret that.

I think one of the ways, and some of your shows are about this, are about the ways the we is a kind of plural of individuals, right?

You can do a hard thing and I can do a hard thing and maybe we can give each other courage, but you can figure out your marriage and you can figure out that thing with your boss.

And so there's a certain we that's like a loose collective of individuals doing hard things.

But of course, the ultimate for me, we can do hard thing, is a truly collective we.

And the hard thing...

that we need to do now is reclaim this country for people rather than huge companies.

Reclaim this country for your kids instead of Jeff Bezos's yacht.

Reclaim this country for ideals of all people created equal

endowed with rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, very powerful ideas.