Ezra Klein

It is a fact that Trump is alienating many of his supporters and the business community by lashing himself to the mast of an incredibly dumb economic theory and then seeming to double down and double down on it, coming out and saying, well, American kids have too many dolls. You might have too many pencils. My toilet is made of gold, but you have 30 pencils and you only need five.

It is a fact that Trump is alienating many of his supporters and the business community by lashing himself to the mast of an incredibly dumb economic theory and then seeming to double down and double down on it, coming out and saying, well, American kids have too many dolls. You might have too many pencils. My toilet is made of gold, but you have 30 pencils and you only need five.

We should talk about it. We should talk about that. Well, let's hold there for a second. When they say America is not a democracy at this moment, what do they mean?

We should talk about it. We should talk about that. Well, let's hold there for a second. When they say America is not a democracy at this moment, what do they mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He doesn't really believe he should have called the book that.

He doesn't really believe he should have called the book that.

I think about things I didn't used to think about.

I think about things I didn't used to think about.

But it hasn't changed my behavior yet. Now, different people, I mean, I think this is like the it's here but unevenly distributed argument. Different people are in different positions with this. I know people who are writers, who are well-known writers, who there are things they will not write because they're on a green card.

But it hasn't changed my behavior yet. Now, different people, I mean, I think this is like the it's here but unevenly distributed argument. Different people are in different positions with this. I know people who are writers, who are well-known writers, who there are things they will not write because they're on a green card.

If you are on a green card right now, you are living in a different world than if you were born here. It's just true. If you're here on a work visa, a student visa, you're living in a different world than if you were born here. And there are ways that they are going after people who... you know, have power in American society too, right?

If you are on a green card right now, you are living in a different world than if you were born here. It's just true. If you're here on a work visa, a student visa, you're living in a different world than if you were born here. And there are ways that they are going after people who... you know, have power in American society too, right?

They have had these executive orders going after people like Miles Taylor and John Bolton, who were members of the Trump administration in the first term, who they feel were disloyal. They are going after Letitia James, the New York attorney general, because she prosecuted Donald Trump.

They have had these executive orders going after people like Miles Taylor and John Bolton, who were members of the Trump administration in the first term, who they feel were disloyal. They are going after Letitia James, the New York attorney general, because she prosecuted Donald Trump.

So there are ways in which that they are trying to make examples of people, make life hard for them, use what money or control they have, use the machinery of the federal government. And it's early. Now, maybe that stiffens the spine of the opposition. Maybe that infuriates people and it backfires on them. But they are trying to make the opposition think twice.

So there are ways in which that they are trying to make examples of people, make life hard for them, use what money or control they have, use the machinery of the federal government. And it's early. Now, maybe that stiffens the spine of the opposition. Maybe that infuriates people and it backfires on them. But they are trying to make the opposition think twice.

Thank you.

Thank you.