Sarah Longwell

Like, I'd been just sort of, like, sitting in my rage.

Watching Jerome Powell, in all of his old man steadiness, say, and lay it out so clearly, yeah, this is pretextual.

I went in front of Congress.

Like, I just... And he's not exercised.

He's not foaming at the mouth.

He's just laying out the facts.

And then he's also doing what I wish a lot of other, I think, public officials would do, which is he clearly has called Lisa Murkowski to be like, hey, I testified in front of you.

You know this.

You're a reasonable person.

This is what he's doing.

Like, he's called Tom Tillis.

He has talked to them and said, you know this is wrong.

And he is making them stand up for him.

And...

That is like, I don't know, he's handling Trump and what is happening to him better.

And the other thing is, like, he is fighting in a world in which everybody else has basically given up their institution.

For Trump's benefit, he is refusing to—he's out in May.

He could just wait it out.

He could just put his head down and try to do his best.

But he is publicly putting his body out in front and saying, I won't let you do this to my institution.