John Ganz

What did you think?

Who did you think you were dealing with?

Yeah.

Oh, you thought you had the special key to his heart?

Give me a break.

I mean, oh, we're so friendly and he's so good to us.

He can change his mind at any moment.

He's dropped old friends.

He can drop some political ally when it doesn't seem like it's going his way.

Consistency is not his forte.

And he, you know, to his advantage, he's able to to change course very quickly.

Should have bribed him.

Well, I'm sure that they probably tried and are doing something.

But I think the real people who are excelling and bribing him are the Gulf states probably.

And that may reflect the approach here.

My agent didn't seem to think it was going to be a good idea, but I convinced the publisher of it pretty quickly.

Well, Rothbard foresaw the type of politics that Trump practices as a path forward for like the hard right, which is basically a kind of what he called it at the time, right wing populism.

He was looking at David Duke running in in Louisiana and how the media kind of freaked out about it.

And he said, this is the way to do it.

You know, you go around the media, you short circuit the media and, you know, you talk directly to the people and you attack