Ro Khanna
speaker
12,398 appearances
180 recordings
43 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Ro Khanna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 160 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 35.
Appearances
It's a good question.
And the housing bill is actually a great example of so much of what we write about in this book, which is Trump operating on pure gut.
And he is having his his influence, the people around him who influence his thinking change.
It's like a half a dozen people in the room of this government and this White House who are making the decisions every day.
And if you are in this government and you're not in that room, you often have no idea what's going on.
And that includes top officials at the State Department, Justice Department, CIA, and so forth.
I...
He is not especially interested in domestic politics this term.
I mean, this term is in so many ways not recognizable to the first one.
It's not a binary.
It doesn't mean that he's never going to pay attention.
Right.
But certainly, if he had been seeing the poll numbers that he has now, that he does actually have by all external metrics and some from his own internal pollsters, if he had been seeing the complaints about affordability from his own base, if he had been seeing how vocally angry members of his own base were about
the war in Iran, he would have been more responsive in term one.
Now he is really doing the things that he wants to do because he is very, very concerned with and focused on leaving his
indelible imprint on Washington and on the world.
And he we write about this.
You can't argue that he has been an unbelievably consequential figure.
He's certainly the most consequential president of my lifetime.
I'm in my 50s, but he you know, I think he will be the most consequential figure for the next few years going forward.
Showing 3741–3760 of 12,398 · page 188 of 620
← Previous
Next →