Susan Glasser
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Aug
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reality of the American presidency right now.
It came up in your conversation with David French because the Supreme Court this week has basically gotten rid of the last of the meaningful kind of restrictions on not just contribution limits post-Watergate, but the idea that you couldn't have unlimited amounts of essentially unaccountable cash flowing in coordination with
to parties and candidates.
And that's just basically gone now, which is why we've had this age of the hyper-empowered... As well as the independent agencies.
Yeah, well, exactly.
The independent agencies, that predates Watergate.
That goes all the way back to the New Deal.
You know, people...
call them conservatives.
They're not.
It's a far-right radical court.
Donald Trump is also a radical president, although interestingly, he doesn't necessarily share the same far-right ideology that the justices are imposing right now.
You know, where they overlap, the justices have upheld him.
Where they don't overlap, the justices have come in and narrowly
reproved Donald Trump on things like tariffs and outright overturning the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship.
But, you know, it seems to me that the combination of an executive that knows no boundaries and a Supreme Court that is asserting powers at the expense of Congress that we've never seen before, that is something...
that really changes the balance of power in a way that invites us to contemplate that on the 250th anniversary.
I mean, I just, I think that
the post-Trump presidency is going to test us still in entirely different ways.
And I think our experience with the Joe Biden interregnum, I guess as it will come to be known, shows that Democrats, they have talked about an existential threat.
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