Dean Ball

Um,

they feel way more attached to them than most conservatives I know.

Most conservatives I know are actually like, I think the modern conservative party is like in some sense, way more like accelerationist and way more open to sort of substantial change, at least big chunks of it are.

And also like way more internet native, way more like native to the institutions of the 21st century than the left is.

And this is a really interesting, just general political fact.

I've pointed this out before.

And so when I say like,

this is a problem.

What I'm not saying is we need to defend the, like we need to preserve things as they are, or as they were, you know, as, as we might remember through rose colored glasses, you know, in the 1980s or something like that.

That's not how I see things.

I think we will have to be imaginative and sort of reinvent the institutions of statecraft.

And that's going to be super hard.

Yeah, well, first of all, I mean, you know, as a conservative, I would probably add some, like, there are some cultural criticisms that I would make of the last 75 years of American history that I might... But that's kind of almost a separate issue, right?

You know, it's almost like, oh, we'll save that for the pages of City Journal or something.

We're going to disagree too much about that, so let's stay on the current track.

That's exactly right.

That's exactly right.

Yeah, and there are plenty of disagreements to be had that are fun.

But, like, yeah, so the executive power thing is definitely one big one.

Um...