Jon Lovett

borrows against the future in everything he's ever done.

And he has been throughout his life and his time in politics protected by

the cowardice of Republicans and the resilience of America.

The resilience of America has been his great protector through all of this, right?

And the resilience of our institutions to kind of push back against his worst excesses actually protects him in some sense.

That's a lot of what happened in the first term.

It's part of what's happening in this term, but also the resilience of the American economy.

I think there are a lot of people that were surprised by how

how much the economy was able to withstand these global tariffs.

I think there were people that predicted the impact would be worse.

That's the truth, right?

Like people said, oh, these are going to be terrible.

And they have been terrible for prices and they've had a negative impact.

But we weathered it.

We have weathered it.

That's just absolutely the truth.

They're bad costs.

We shouldn't have done it.

And I think he's counting on the same thing here, that we can weather the implications of this.

Our alliances can weather Trump's mercurial bullying across the world.