Ezra Klein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You don't think that will work.
No, I don't think anybody cares.
Most people aren't watching and most people don't care.
People understand why Democrats don't like Donald Trump.
They understand why Donald Trump doesn't like Democrats.
One of the things you always need to be doing in politics, particularly if you're unpopular, and the dynamics of social media have made this harder for both parties, is thinking about the person who doesn't like you but could like you.
Not the person who already likes you, not the person who already thinks you're doing a great job.
And the thing he's not doing right now is giving those people anything.
There's this deep way in which Donald Trump to me is the inverse of Joe Biden.
Joe Biden could not solve a single problem through communication and basically didn't try.
He didn't take credit for things.
He was not really that capable by the end of giving good speeches.
Trump is trying to solve all of his problems through communication, not through governing.
And what you see is that that doesn't work either.
He's doing all the things that people say, you know, Biden should have done.
He's naming everything after himself.
He's making sure everybody knows about it.
But because most people just don't pay that much attention to politics or to policy,
doing anything for him.