Ezra Klein

Can you say what the unitary executive theory is?

Can you say what the unitary executive theory is?

So then when you say there's a connection between unitary executive theory and using the FBI in this way, draw that out.

So then when you say there's a connection between unitary executive theory and using the FBI in this way, draw that out.

It's... When we talk through this, what you're left with is at least for the next period until the midterms and the swearing in of another Congress, the boundaries on what they can do are what they decide to do. And, well, first, is there anything wrong with that statement? No.

It's... When we talk through this, what you're left with is at least for the next period until the midterms and the swearing in of another Congress, the boundaries on what they can do are what they decide to do. And, well, first, is there anything wrong with that statement? No.

See, I don't think they do.

See, I don't think they do.

Let me think about how my own thinking on this has changed, because I would have said the same thing you're saying. And I'm not going to tell you that I think there is no level of mass protest, no level of public opinion loss. that would move or unnerve them. And the thing about public opinion is he doesn't have to win re-election.

Let me think about how my own thinking on this has changed, because I would have said the same thing you're saying. And I'm not going to tell you that I think there is no level of mass protest, no level of public opinion loss. that would move or unnerve them. And the thing about public opinion is he doesn't have to win re-election.

And he's definitely not running the country in a way where he seems to care if House Republicans win re-election. Donald Trump has systematically traded away popularity to do things that anybody anywhere in the world could have told him would be unpopular, like crash the global stock market, raise prices for everyday Americans. And it has been there relative...

And he's definitely not running the country in a way where he seems to care if House Republicans win re-election. Donald Trump has systematically traded away popularity to do things that anybody anywhere in the world could have told him would be unpopular, like crash the global stock market, raise prices for everyday Americans. And it has been there relative...

Immunity is too strong, but willingness to absorb that unpopularity and that backlash, it has made me rethink how sensitive they are to it. The only thing I have actually seen stop them is the beginnings of unravelings in the treasury bond market. I don't think they want to cause a genuine financial crisis.

Immunity is too strong, but willingness to absorb that unpopularity and that backlash, it has made me rethink how sensitive they are to it. The only thing I have actually seen stop them is the beginnings of unravelings in the treasury bond market. I don't think they want to cause a genuine financial crisis.

Beyond that, either because they think this stuff will be popular over time, I mean, Bichelle is a very popular president in El Salvador, or because they think their tariffs will work over time, they are not vulnerable or sensitive to short-term whims of popular opinion.

Beyond that, either because they think this stuff will be popular over time, I mean, Bichelle is a very popular president in El Salvador, or because they think their tariffs will work over time, they are not vulnerable or sensitive to short-term whims of popular opinion.

Mass protests, I actually find a quite unnerving prospect right now, because I think a lot about the moment in the first term when you had the George Floyd protests, where And Trump said that he wanted to see the National Guard or someone deployed to shoot the protesters, at least in the knees. And that order, if you want to call it an order, that suggestion was ignored.

Mass protests, I actually find a quite unnerving prospect right now, because I think a lot about the moment in the first term when you had the George Floyd protests, where And Trump said that he wanted to see the National Guard or someone deployed to shoot the protesters, at least in the knees. And that order, if you want to call it an order, that suggestion was ignored.

And Trump was surrounded by people in that term who saw part of their job as restraining his worst impulses. There are no breaks around him. There is no one left to say no.

And Trump was surrounded by people in that term who saw part of their job as restraining his worst impulses. There are no breaks around him. There is no one left to say no.