Daniel Knowles

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47 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

I feel profoundly pessimistic about American democracy and the birthright citizenship ruling.

Unlike that being a source of optimism as it is for Robert, for me that just seems terrifying that four out of nine Supreme Court judges decided that the president can apparently just

go against the plain text of the constitution with an executive order.

That seems to me a real, real threat.

And that's one of an awful lot of things.

So I I actually disagree with Robert.

I am really pessimistic.

Yeah, I think all of what Robert just said is true and yet a number of precedents have been set here that any president will want to use and perhaps sometimes should use, but

I just don't think the toothpaste goes back in the chew when it comes to presidential power.

I've been thinking about this a lot actually.

Last year I went to visit some friends in in Canada and

Turned up and all these Canadians were asking me, why why would you go back to America?

Why haven't you left?

Place seems a disaster.

That when you come back across the border and you talk to people, it's certainly in the Midwest, there's barely an awareness of how angry people outside are.

Well,

It was very intense.

I remember coming back to Chicago from a reporting trip in October when the big deportation effort was getting going.

And I remember these helicopters flying over my house and it feeling like a trip I did a long time ago to Kabul.

Then there was this huge intense reaction to it.

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