Ezra Klein
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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.
People are mad about prices.
We should talk about immigration.
They're mad about immigration.
And they're mad about disorder that now Donald Trump is causing.
And going piece by piece to this deal or that deal, to no tax on tips, to whatever, is not going to talk him out of it.
One is you think about the process by which state of the unions are normally vetted, right?
The amount of interagency meeting and making sure the president doesn't say anything that can be untrue.
The Trump White House, because it cares so little about the fact checkers, has freed itself from that discipline and that rigor.
That's like the understatement.
And so the fact that nobody stopped him from getting something that substantial wrong is, as you say, telling, but it's telling about a kind of a weakness and a vulnerability around him, which is that they are not doing things right.
The other thing I want to note on immigration.
So immigration has gone from Donald Trump's dominant issue.