Jonathan V. Last

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2,498 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 22 Sep

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We have the depoliticization of the post office.

Believe it or not, that was a thing we had to do.

We had a campaign finance reform, which did not work out all that well and created its own problems.

But there are a bunch of post Watergate structural reforms to try to

prevent at least that problem from happening again?

This is a baited question because I have my own list of things that I think need to be done, but I'm curious as to what your thoughts are on this.

And if you go into- This is why we need norms.

I mean, once you start violating norms, you have to write it down and you can't write everything down.

Right.

Yeah, I mean, so the Biden theory of the case, which was not crazy at the time, was that Trump, it was what we talked about before.

You know, you forget it and I forget it and we'll both forget it.

Trump was an aberration.

Biden had just won the second largest victory in the post-Reagan era.

So Trumpism looked like, hey, that was just a one-off.

Instead of going for recriminations, instead of going for institutional reform, we're going to fake it till we make it.

We're just going to go back to normal.

That was a thing that happened and we never have to speak of it again.

And that's not a crazy view.

It just turns out to have been wrong.

Yeah, but also he fixed it.

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