Dara Lind

Yeah. And I also have questions about who exactly it is who did that realizing, right? Like, it is clear that whoever on the transition team was responsible for drafting executive orders related to Doge had that realization. Yeah.

Yeah. And I also have questions about who exactly it is who did that realizing, right? Like, it is clear that whoever on the transition team was responsible for drafting executive orders related to Doge had that realization. Yeah.

Has Elon Musk come to that conclusion that he can't just waltz into, you know, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and say 50% of you are fired and the other 50% have to show me 20 pages of code?

Has Elon Musk come to that conclusion that he can't just waltz into, you know, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and say 50% of you are fired and the other 50% have to show me 20 pages of code?

I think that... Everyone is very comfortable with the equilibrium we've seen over the last like 10 years or so of instead of policy originating in Congress with legislation, policy originates in the executive branch. Then via litigation, it gets punted to the judicial branch to issue a thumbs up or thumbs down on. And half of Congress is responsible for turning the judge machine on and off.

I think that... Everyone is very comfortable with the equilibrium we've seen over the last like 10 years or so of instead of policy originating in Congress with legislation, policy originates in the executive branch. Then via litigation, it gets punted to the judicial branch to issue a thumbs up or thumbs down on. And half of Congress is responsible for turning the judge machine on and off.

Like, that is the equilibrium we have. Congress has not been super interested in legislating under presidents of either party. And so it is not that surprising to me that an administration that is very focused on areas where there is a lot of executive leeway in terms of trade negotiations and immigration enforcement has the general attitude that they're going to

Like, that is the equilibrium we have. Congress has not been super interested in legislating under presidents of either party. And so it is not that surprising to me that an administration that is very focused on areas where there is a lot of executive leeway in terms of trade negotiations and immigration enforcement has the general attitude that they're going to

See how far they can get with the executive branch and know that Congress isn't going to stand up for its prerogative as the legislative branch and, like, try to stop them from doing things that might have been seen as quasi-legislative action in the past.

See how far they can get with the executive branch and know that Congress isn't going to stand up for its prerogative as the legislative branch and, like, try to stop them from doing things that might have been seen as quasi-legislative action in the past.

This is like the most good government normie take to have on this particular week. But I think that The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis is probably a good book to revisit if you have it and to skim if you haven't checked it out yet.

This is like the most good government normie take to have on this particular week. But I think that The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis is probably a good book to revisit if you have it and to skim if you haven't checked it out yet.

Just for a reminder of the innumerable things that the federal government does that a like broad based attack on the civil service is going to end up degrading in some form or another.

Just for a reminder of the innumerable things that the federal government does that a like broad based attack on the civil service is going to end up degrading in some form or another.

Demon Copperhead was the only novel I read twice last year, and I think that it is the rebuttal to all of the pseudo-sentimental hillbilly elegy debate in terms of what really happened to the rural poor over the last 25 years. And if I don't say an immigration book, I'm probably going to be fired.

Demon Copperhead was the only novel I read twice last year, and I think that it is the rebuttal to all of the pseudo-sentimental hillbilly elegy debate in terms of what really happened to the rural poor over the last 25 years. And if I don't say an immigration book, I'm probably going to be fired.

So Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer, specifically the first half, which talks about the 80s and has really great archival material as a reminder that government is made of people and people make decisions.

So Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer, specifically the first half, which talks about the 80s and has really great archival material as a reminder that government is made of people and people make decisions.