Bill Kristol

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.

headquarters.

I'm not even sure exactly what they're building and so forth.

Cost overruns, that kind of thing.

That's a criminal offense.

I mean, so it is part of the broader intimidation effort, obviously.

But you're right.