John Ganz

So, you know, these are my politics basically.

Yeah, you've got to find somebody to the left of Bernie to put on the pod, like some PSL people or something like that.

I could tell you how he's a revisionist.

I stand by that.

I mean, yeah, absolutely.

And I think that what I what I wrote after that is actually it's become more difficult and not as easy because I find that, you know, when you write political analysis, you know, you usually attribute.

motives or reasons for people's behavior.

And sometimes those reasons are ideological.

Sometimes they're self-interested.

Sometimes they're in the context of partisan politics.

You try to make it legible for people and you try to put your spin on it, maybe advance your politics a little bit, generally try to communicate the truth.

With the actions of the Trump administration, it's very difficult, I find, to give them any coherence because it's so based on Trump's personal whims and his own very idiosyncratic and mercurial way of doing things.

So I often find that when I attribute, you know, some kind of ideological thinking or some kind of project to anything they do, you know, a week from then, the line has totally changed.

You know, usually...

A presidential coalition has tensions, but theirs is in open confrontation with each other all the time, which is unusual.

A president usually undertaking a project like going to war, say, right?

Now, usually, you would imagine, I mean, this is the way we used to think about politics, they would first have their own party very much on board, and then they would use that as a platform to get the rest of the American people on board.

Now, Trump didn't even have his own party on board.

going into it so it's a different type of politics and you know we grew up with and we're accustomed to to commenting on and it very much is is the trump show and he he personalizes everything he is not able to think in terms of systems or abstractions ideas like the market or you don't believe that donald trump can abstract

I don't think he can, basically.