Jonah Goldberg

If we're talking politically, right?

I mean, there's all sorts of, you know,

the ai thing is interesting in all sorts of ways we could talk about that at all but if you're just talking about like get goldberg on to do report from inside the beltway what's going on with politics stuff i think the continued erosion of the politicization of our institutions in in distressing ways is probably the main main thing i'm concerned about i mean we're talking on

you know, February 19th or whatever, like by a time that people listen to this, we could be invading Iran.

So that could make anything I say kind of outdated, but just a potpourri, you know, like just a couple of days ago or yesterday, Kevin Hassett, chief economic advisor of the president,

You know, he said that some staff economist who did a paper verifying what economists have been saying for 30 years, 50 years, 70 years about tariffs that Americans pay them and that the foreigners don't.

Kevin Hassett, who I knew personally, and I know he agreed with that when I knew him, now says that those staffers should be penalized.

For releasing such a finding and you or you look at the chicanery that's going on with Stephen Colbert and the FCC.

Trump is running what political scientists sometimes call a personalist regime where the distinction between his personal aims and desires and the demands of state are completely blurred.

And I don't think that's going to last forever.

You know, the guy's, you know, 80 or whatever.

And I don't think Vance can pull off that act or anything like that.

But the problem is, is that it's like with trust.

Once you violate these kinds of norms and these institutional rules, you know, the sort of Hayekian hidden law stuff, you can't recreate it overnight.

We have what should have been a headline story all across the country is

A number of federal judges have basically have abolished or rescinded what they call, I think it's the presumption of regularity, which is basically a fancy term for saying that when lawyers for the government come to court, judges are going to assume-

Right.

Or assuming they're not lying.

Right.

That's it.