Ezra Klein

But they are not in an aggressive way, right?

riding herd on Republicans in Congress to back their agenda all the way through.

And at this point, they didn't even seem to have a legislative agenda for 2026.

There's a lot of drift in this presidency at this point.

More than I think one would have expected.

There are a couple things Trump really cares about.

Again, tariffs, immigration.

But beneath that, I mean, this is – it just passed the year mark in this term.

They shouldn't be this out of ideas, this out of movement.

But instead, Trump seems to be spending his time on foreign policy, which is not what people wanted from him.

And a lot can go wrong depending on what he decides to do with Iran.

He might be afraid of it.

I think it is very unlikely, not completely impossible, but what would have to come out would... It's hard for me to imagine what at this point would crack their support for him.

But between Trump getting impeached and convicted and where we are now is, I think, the more obvious thing that will happen.

if Democrats win the House and or the Senate, which is a huge amount of investigations.

And one thing that was very smart of Trump last night was to pick up the ban insider stock trading from members of Congress.

And that's a very, I mean, I've seen a lot of polling on this that is about as popular a policy as exists and Democrats did not implement it.

And Pelosi is sort of very identified with this and people believe, so looking at the returns of her, you sometimes see these ads right now on the New York subway for a online stock trading platform where you can just like hit a button and have Nancy Pelosi's portfolio on the theory that, well, if she knows what's going on, so maybe you should too.

That's smart politics for him, but the thing behind it is people don't like seismic levels of political corruption.

And within his administration and his family are the most seismic levels of political corruption I think that we have seen in the modern era in American politics.