Jonah Goldberg

So there's some of those people.

And then there are other people who really don't like him.

Fewer than there were.

They're afraid of the base.

But they're afraid of his base, right?

Trump's superpower is still that he can kill you in the primaries.

And so one thing to look for as we approach a lot of these primary deadlines in the next week, certain month, is how many Republicans, once they have avoided a primary challenge, start heading for the hills and running on their own rather than running on a sort of Trumpy ticket.

So some of that might happen.

But I mean, there are a lot of reasons for the institutional gelding of Congress.

My only reason for getting into all that, and I'm happy to get into it more, is that it will be in the partisan interest of Democrats to actually do the job more.

The job of Congress is to do oversight, right?

I mean, in terms of a president.

The job of Congress is to protect its prerogatives.

Now, I would like it if they were doing it for more institutional or constitutional reasons than partisan reasons, but I'll take the partisan.

And so I think you're going to see a lot of replays of like that Pam Bondi hearing, where

Everyone go, you know, cabinet secretaries go and they perform for Trump or they perform for Trump's base rather than actually showing respect and deference and providing information.

I'm fine.

You know, that's better than nothing.

I want I want a lot of oversight.

I want Congress to sort of carve back its prerogatives.