Emily Bazelon

He really might as well have just said disloyal to him.

because that's what's really troubling him here.

And I think if he goes down that road in this kind of public way, you know, on video, which will be streamed over and over again at the State of the Union, that's just going to kind of up the ante.

And, you know, maybe there's something sort of usefully clarifying about that for the American people to see that the president expects the court to do his bidding, even though it is a separate and co-equal branch.

Yeah, totally.

I mean, if you go back to that phrase that he said that they were disloyal to the Constitution.

Well, that only makes sense if you think the Constitution establishes the president and his judgment is basically the only power.

Right.

This unitary executive theory that some conservatives have really pushed to the limits during the Trump administration.

I mean, Binya, is this a useful way to think about this?

And I'm really just thinking out loud here.

But, you know, one way to think about Trump's tariff policy is that it's a bad answer to a real insight, which is that, you know, globalization and the kind of free trade of the Clinton all the way to the Obama eras left out lots of Americans.

Right.

Especially in the parts of the country that previously had a lot of factory industrial jobs, the kind of jobs that, you

pay well, even though you haven't graduated from college, that there is a kind of backbone there that got really hollowed out by trade agreements and all those kinds of jobs moving offshore.

And Democrats, as well as Republicans, have really struggled to

deal with the flaws and weaknesses of that kind of globalization.

And nobody still really knows what to do about it.

And now we have the kind of potential for this like huge AI disruption to the white collar economy potentially coming down the pike when we haven't even solved the blue collar problem yet.

Does that resonate with you?