Ian Bremmer
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happens to be in and how they're addressing them right now.
And of course, they also play an inordinate role in driving the headlines and the conversations that you and I frequently end up having.
So I take that point that Trump is symptom, not cause.
Well, FDR was the last time you had a president in the United States that was truly interested in upending the checks and balances that existed on the executive.
and in transforming the nature of US power as manifested by the government.
And there were some things that he tried to do that he failed at, like packing the Supreme Court to 15 members, or like throwing out, purging a number of the members of his own Democratic Party who had been democratically elected.
But there were a number of things that he succeeded at.
like creating a professionalized administrative state to actually do the business of the government that was independent, that was technocratic, that did not exist before, like the New Deal, the infrastructure of the country that was built that allowed a middle class and a working class to emerge in a stable way over several generations coming out of the Gilded Age and the Great Depression.
Now, a political revolution does not have to succeed.
And a political revolution does not have to be for goals that you or I happen to agree with.
But the structural condition of a people that are demanding a political revolution, that is something.
that will persist if it is not satisfied, if it is not satiated.
And so what I see right now is President Trump driving a political revolution.
He is attempting every day to end the checks and balances on the U.S.
executive.
And you and I can come up with many examples of that.
Many of them he is failing at.
And it is very clear to me, I have a lot of confidence that he will not succeed in the political revolution that he will drive.
But it's also pretty clear to me that the American people are going to continue to demand some very significant revolutionary responses to a system that they believe is not responding adequately to them.
And where that comes from, is it the left?
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