Dylan Scott
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698 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 16 Sep
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So there was a decision made to do this entirely through compliments and roses. Instead of making it more expensive to drive a gas car, you make it cheaper to buy an electric car. Instead of making it more expensive to run a natural gas plant, you make it cheaper to run a solar plant.
The issue is loans. You just need to buy things that are really expensive upfront. And so having to pay more interest on those loans is really, really bad. And they had to pay a lot more interest because there was a lot of inflation. And to fight the inflation, the Fed had to raise interest rates.
And so it's this like one hand of the Biden administration's policymaking that sort of overheated the economy, led to inflation, raised interest rates. That is then sort of helping to strangle another part of the economy that more than the rest of the energy sector really relies on low interest rates to succeed.
Obama got a lot of crap for not being willing to do as much with executive power as a lot of sort of activists wanted him to do. And I think the experience with trying to use executive power a lot more under Biden sort of gave us one answer of why. I think a lot about the student loan situation.
They canceled a lot of debt. They did not cancel all of it. And so there was still a lot of discontent among activists who were calling for this. The Supreme Court said it was illegal for them to do this. And so sort of a lot of their efforts got overturned and just didn't happen.
And at the same time, while this was happening, there was this colossal screw up within the Department of Education around FAFSA, which is the financial aid form. Just like hundreds of thousands of people applying for college financial aid didn't get it or were severely delayed because the department was sort of backed up in processing it.
I think there's a lot of indications that that happened because all their energy was on the student loan thing. It turns out they can't do that the Supreme Court says is illegal, but they spent all their time on it and they weren't doing the normal functioning of the department of getting financial aid to people who need it right now. I think that's a real cautionary tale.
You need to just run the government well. And all these... sort of exotic uses of presidential powers to do things that Congress won't let you do. There's no magic wand.
I think his age probably has something to do with it. But I think something you hear from both admirers and critics of Joe Biden is that he goes where the party's going. In the 80s, when you had to be sort of like a moderate Democrat to get anywhere, he was talking about the death penalty and being tough on crime.
Then you move to the Obama years, and he's like a loyal Obama Democrat.
You move to 2020 and he sort of soaks up a lot of this like Bernie and Warren energy and moves left during the general election in a kind of surprising way.
He sort of moves with the party. And I think that is a very sensical thing to do as a safe state Democrat in the Senate. Like, that is probably the optimal strategy. It's really bad in an executive. You need someone who has opinions.
Well, nothing like Charlottesville happened when Biden was president, so I'll give him that in the very most narrow of senses. I think...
If you think more broadly as the Trump era was an era not just of sort of organized racism, but of corrupt patronage, sort of familial-based circles of nepotism and self-dealing, I found his decision to pardon Hunter predictable, but sort of the ultimate punchline on that aspiration.
If you're going to run against someone because you think that they don't believe in the rule of law and that they put their cronies and their family ahead of the common good to then go around and pardon your son for crimes that he for sure did. Like, what are we doing here?
I think there's all kinds of people who are probably going to be unduly prosecuted for their crimes in the Trump years. None of them got pardons. I guess we'll still see. But he did pardon his son. That seemed important to him. And it's not the biggest thing in the scheme of his administration, but I think a major feeling I have about the Biden years is I was lied to.
I was lied to about what you were going to do. I was lied to about the extent of your mental capabilities and the degree of your aging. And that was a moment of, right, this is how it feels to be lied to. This is how it feels to be cheated. Dylan Matthews, I'll never lie to you.
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