Derek Thompson

It is, however, and I do mean this like on a separate plane, an opportunity for people who think of themselves as abundance liberals to refocus this question around how do we solve these problems on the supply side?

How do we make it easier to build the housing that currently is not being built?

How do we make it easier to build the transformers that currently aren't not only being built, but are also in many cases being tariffed?

So I think Trump is a disaster, but Trump's disaster is often instructive to the opposing party.

So this I do think is an opportunity for someone to run on the idea that like, we know that like economics works in many of these industries.

We know supply and demand works.

There are supply side solutions to many of these problems.

And if we implement them in a way that the Trump administration has not,

we can begin to fix some of these problems.

I might disagree with the way you're splitting out the economic case and the vision case.

There's a way in which I think the last few months in particular have demonstrated that the case for clean electricity is also the case for cheap energy in the long run.

We just saw is the degree to which a totalitarian theocratic regime can use drone weaponry to control an artery of gas and oil.

in a way that can raise the cost of fossil fuels for the entire world.

One way to not rely on that one artery is to build more energy at home, to insource your energy.

What are some ways to do that?

is to take advantage of an unbelievable cost revolution in solar and storage, not to mention I would like wind, geothermal, and nuclear, but those are alternative for now, to use the cost revolution in solar and storage to build more in this country such that we have not only

clean electricity, but also clean electricity that isn't going to ride the sort of insurance spikes of a world in which there's war on the seas that every few months drives up the cost of hydrocarbons that are put on ships.

Doge was a total disaster.

I mean, there's a way in which I think some people say, oh, you know, what we'll just do is we'll build Doge, but better.

That's what begs the question.