Ezra Klein

So these things often were bipartisan in their times, but over time, they're not the right policy equilibrium for the next stage. On the right, though, you have the same issue. So you have a – I don't want to call it an abundance right, but a right that is more open to markets, more open to trying to create a lot of housing.

And then you have a scarcity right, a populist right, which is currently the right in power. And you look at Donald Trump, you look at JD Vance, when they look at the housing problem, they don't propose a lot of ways to make supply bigger. On the campaign trail again and again, they use it as an argument for deporting immigrants.

And then you have a scarcity right, a populist right, which is currently the right in power. And you look at Donald Trump, you look at JD Vance, when they look at the housing problem, they don't propose a lot of ways to make supply bigger. On the campaign trail again and again, they use it as an argument for deporting immigrants.

And then you have a scarcity right, a populist right, which is currently the right in power. And you look at Donald Trump, you look at JD Vance, when they look at the housing problem, they don't propose a lot of ways to make supply bigger. On the campaign trail again and again, they use it as an argument for deporting immigrants.

When they look at trade, they don't make a lot of ways for us to make more things more easily and trade them with the world. They're rapidly reducing the entire quantity of global trade using a completely insane tariff scheme. When they look at the government, you know, I think Doge is a good idea and somebody should try it.

When they look at trade, they don't make a lot of ways for us to make more things more easily and trade them with the world. They're rapidly reducing the entire quantity of global trade using a completely insane tariff scheme. When they look at the government, you know, I think Doge is a good idea and somebody should try it.

When they look at trade, they don't make a lot of ways for us to make more things more easily and trade them with the world. They're rapidly reducing the entire quantity of global trade using a completely insane tariff scheme. When they look at the government, you know, I think Doge is a good idea and somebody should try it.

But they have been quite indiscriminate at hacking away at state capacity. So this is not a crew, in my view, that looks forward and sees a sort of world of more. They look at scarcities we currently have, things we don't have enough of, manufacturing capacity, et cetera, and then find a way to create a scarcity of something else.

But they have been quite indiscriminate at hacking away at state capacity. So this is not a crew, in my view, that looks forward and sees a sort of world of more. They look at scarcities we currently have, things we don't have enough of, manufacturing capacity, et cetera, and then find a way to create a scarcity of something else.

But they have been quite indiscriminate at hacking away at state capacity. So this is not a crew, in my view, that looks forward and sees a sort of world of more. They look at scarcities we currently have, things we don't have enough of, manufacturing capacity, et cetera, and then find a way to create a scarcity of something else.

So my view is that the sort of supply side of both parties has a fight on its hands. And the fight is different and it plays out in different ways. But one of the things that should make us more optimistic rather than fatalistic about the inevitable pathway of government that sort of you're suggesting there

So my view is that the sort of supply side of both parties has a fight on its hands. And the fight is different and it plays out in different ways. But one of the things that should make us more optimistic rather than fatalistic about the inevitable pathway of government that sort of you're suggesting there

So my view is that the sort of supply side of both parties has a fight on its hands. And the fight is different and it plays out in different ways. But one of the things that should make us more optimistic rather than fatalistic about the inevitable pathway of government that sort of you're suggesting there

Is it if you look around at different countries, at our own country and at our own even federal government at different times, you realize that these are pendulums that swing back. These are manmade processes that can be unmade or reformed. And that should always give you a sense of hope.

Is it if you look around at different countries, at our own country and at our own even federal government at different times, you realize that these are pendulums that swing back. These are manmade processes that can be unmade or reformed. And that should always give you a sense of hope.

Is it if you look around at different countries, at our own country and at our own even federal government at different times, you realize that these are pendulums that swing back. These are manmade processes that can be unmade or reformed. And that should always give you a sense of hope.

I have been extraordinary. I'll say two things about this. One is it just somebody just released a book on this. I've been extraordinarily pleased with how much the center of the Democratic establishment is engaging with this book quite, quite seriously. So I was on Gavin Newsom's podcast, governor of California. And he said, you know, he completely agrees with the book and it's all correct.

I have been extraordinary. I'll say two things about this. One is it just somebody just released a book on this. I've been extraordinarily pleased with how much the center of the Democratic establishment is engaging with this book quite, quite seriously. So I was on Gavin Newsom's podcast, governor of California. And he said, you know, he completely agrees with the book and it's all correct.

I have been extraordinary. I'll say two things about this. One is it just somebody just released a book on this. I've been extraordinarily pleased with how much the center of the Democratic establishment is engaging with this book quite, quite seriously. So I was on Gavin Newsom's podcast, governor of California. And he said, you know, he completely agrees with the book and it's all correct.

And he's been he's been working on this. And it's very and it's very hard. And I take that point. But, you know, Cory Booker was shouting the book out in his 25 hour speech on the Senate floor.