Ezra Klein

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.

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.

It was it was a lot of hours, but but nevertheless, he's read it, as have a bunch of others. So one thing I think is happening here is a bit of a permission structure for Democrats who actually have been worried about some of these issues for some time to begin speaking about it more loudly after parties get defeated in the way they did in 2024.

It was it was a lot of hours, but but nevertheless, he's read it, as have a bunch of others. So one thing I think is happening here is a bit of a permission structure for Democrats who actually have been worried about some of these issues for some time to begin speaking about it more loudly after parties get defeated in the way they did in 2024.

It was it was a lot of hours, but but nevertheless, he's read it, as have a bunch of others. So one thing I think is happening here is a bit of a permission structure for Democrats who actually have been worried about some of these issues for some time to begin speaking about it more loudly after parties get defeated in the way they did in 2024.

It does create an openness to soul searching that would not have been there otherwise. At the same time, I don't agree with your characterization from a minute ago because much of the book is motivated. by things happening that predate the book in the Democratic Party already.

It does create an openness to soul searching that would not have been there otherwise. At the same time, I don't agree with your characterization from a minute ago because much of the book is motivated. by things happening that predate the book in the Democratic Party already.

It does create an openness to soul searching that would not have been there otherwise. At the same time, I don't agree with your characterization from a minute ago because much of the book is motivated. by things happening that predate the book in the Democratic Party already.

So the Biden administration, compared to the first Trump administration, compared to the Obama administration, was quite committed to an atypically physical legacy. What it was trying to do was build things in the real world. Its major bills, the infrastructure bill, the Chips and Science Act, which is trying to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the US.

So the Biden administration, compared to the first Trump administration, compared to the Obama administration, was quite committed to an atypically physical legacy. What it was trying to do was build things in the real world. Its major bills, the infrastructure bill, the Chips and Science Act, which is trying to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the US.

So the Biden administration, compared to the first Trump administration, compared to the Obama administration, was quite committed to an atypically physical legacy. What it was trying to do was build things in the real world. Its major bills, the infrastructure bill, the Chips and Science Act, which is trying to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the US.

And of course, the Inflation Reduction Act are all about constructing things not in the regulatory state or in the tax code, as was true in sort of previous administrations, but out of cement and steel and cable and fiber.

And of course, the Inflation Reduction Act are all about constructing things not in the regulatory state or in the tax code, as was true in sort of previous administrations, but out of cement and steel and cable and fiber.

And of course, the Inflation Reduction Act are all about constructing things not in the regulatory state or in the tax code, as was true in sort of previous administrations, but out of cement and steel and cable and fiber.

Now, the problem and what motivated at least some of the inquiry of the book for me is that our laws and our processes are not set up to build at that scale and at that level, at the speed that I think we need to do it, or frankly, that they thought we need to do it.

Now, the problem and what motivated at least some of the inquiry of the book for me is that our laws and our processes are not set up to build at that scale and at that level, at the speed that I think we need to do it, or frankly, that they thought we need to do it.

Now, the problem and what motivated at least some of the inquiry of the book for me is that our laws and our processes are not set up to build at that scale and at that level, at the speed that I think we need to do it, or frankly, that they thought we need to do it.

Brian Deese, a former NEC director under Biden, the director of the National Economics Council, is a great piece in Foreign Affairs about how America needs to build faster and how that's central to the kinds of things Biden was trying to do but will not be achieved unless we change laws

Brian Deese, a former NEC director under Biden, the director of the National Economics Council, is a great piece in Foreign Affairs about how America needs to build faster and how that's central to the kinds of things Biden was trying to do but will not be achieved unless we change laws

Brian Deese, a former NEC director under Biden, the director of the National Economics Council, is a great piece in Foreign Affairs about how America needs to build faster and how that's central to the kinds of things Biden was trying to do but will not be achieved unless we change laws