Bill Kristol

I guess the last two, three months of the year, Trump seemed a little bit on the defensive, and he was with Epstein and other things.

They didn't do well in the government shutdown.

The Democrats did pretty well, very well in the November elections.

And then the stuff he was doing was bad, the Kennedy Center kind of thing and all that, the East Wing.

But it was more performative, you might say, than serious.

I do feel like the last 10 days we have seen real –

accelerationist authoritarianism in foreign policy, obviously, with ICE and now with Powell.

And I'll just add to that list the Epstein file.

I mean, they were pretending at the end of last year they were going to release them.

They were redacting a lot of stuff.

It was a little very slow.

But now they've just, I don't know, I guess they've just decided they don't even have to pretend to be obeying a law that Trump himself signed a couple of months ago.

Yeah, that's the good news.

I think that the business community, which has been so pathetic, honestly, in its response to Trump, maybe they'll finally decide this is really a problem, though.

I don't know.

They have such ability to rationalize that a couple of calls from your friend, Scott Besant, and, you know, a couple of reassurances that, you know, don't worry, Kevin Warsh will be a responsible Fed chair.

Okay.

I don't have a lot of community, a lot of confidence necessarily that the business community will really go into the kind of resistance mode they should, but he's a prominent guy.

They're going after him on a kind of ridiculous thing, this, you know, rehabbing or rebuilding of the Fed bill.

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