David A. Graham

Vance was talking about in the campaign.

And we haven't seen a sort of major shift of social welfare programs away from the government and towards religious organizations.

So that stuff feels a little bit undone.

One thing that he has partially done is work to shut down the Department of Education.

Not all the way there, but he has gotten a lot of carte blanche from the Supreme Court to do that.

Going after big tech, rather than going after tech, I think we've seen instead a real embrace.

And I think that has to do with the fact that tech CEOs cozied up to Trump and Trump was more than happy to have that.

But there hasn't been much of a crackdown.

There hasn't been a sort of progress there.

And we haven't seen the kind of turn toward China that I think the authors argued was really important and should be basically the only thing that the U.S.

was worrying about in the world for the near future.

Something that I think is underappreciated, even as it has gotten attention, is the takeover of the independent regulatory agencies.

So, you know, this is the alphabet soup, the NLRB, the FEC, the FCC.

The FCC in particular has gotten some attention, and we're expecting a Supreme Court decision soon that seems likely to basically give the president control over all these agencies, with the possible exception of the Federal Reserve.

And I think that's just going to change the way everybody interacts with the government.

And the FCC is a great example.

You know, we saw the chair of the FCC basically try to get Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel.

Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

Now imagine that in so many other areas of life, the way you work through labor protections, the way you interact with the Social Security Administration, the way you interact with any number of walks of your life.

I think we're going to see the president controlling that and making it an arm of policy.