Tim Steneovec

What did you come up with?

So, Jerome, so basically, right, we thought this checks and balances would work, right?

Three branches, the government, it made such sense.

And it for so long has pretty much worked pretty well.

But there was this strategy when it comes to the legal part, certainly, of the government, as well as the legislative.

But let's just talk the legal part, because we did have, you know, a judge saying Dominion Energy can resume a wind project that President Trump had halted.

So we have seen him lose

some of the judicial actions out there.

Having said that, if he didn't have that in terms of the Supreme Court justices, would we not be maybe having this conversation today?

Is that what's so much about it?

Or is it all of it, that and the legislative side of it?

And everybody, you know, even the GOP members of Congress saying, yeah, do what you want to do.

You know, it's kind of interesting because that's their job kind of being taken away.

Yeah, there's just moment after moment where many would say this is kind of remarkable.

We're talking with Daron Acemoglu.

He is Economic Nobel Laureate.

He is also Institute Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT, joining us from Cambridge.

So I am curious, is this lasting?

Like, I am wondering who this emboldens in terms of whoever might be in the White House next.

Is this the playbook, the new U.S.