Tyler Cowen

And until then, he's a destructive failure.

There was no one on Twitter to tell him, hey Winston, you need to rethink this whole Irish thing.

And today there would be.

Sam, Sam will do it, right?

Sam will tweet at Winston Churchill, got to rethink the Irish thing.

And Sam is persuasive.

Maybe, but again, you know, like what does the equilibrium look like when everything changes?

But clearly he was an impressive guy, especially given how much he drank.

Well, Jefferson and Hamilton, they're founders, right?

And they were pretty young at the time.

You can do great things when you're founding a country in a way that just cannot be replicated later on.

Putting aside the current year, which I think is weird for a number of reasons, but I think mostly we have had impressive candidates and most of the US bureaucracy in Washington I think is pretty impressive.

generals, national security people, top people in agencies, people at Treasury, people at the Fed, and I interact with these groups, like, pretty often.

Overall, they're impressive, and I've seen no signs they're getting worse.

Now, if you want to say the two candidates this year, again, there's a lot, something we're not going to talk about, but there is a lot you could say on the negative side, yes.

But like Obama, Romney, whichever one you like, I think, like, gee, these are two guys who should be running for president, and that was not long ago.

Well, the Democrats had this funny path with Biden and Kamala didn't get through the electoral process in the normal way.

So that just means you get weirdness, whatever you think of her as a candidate.

Trump, whom I do not want to win, but I think he is extraordinarily impressive in some way, which along a bunch of dimensions exceeds a lot of earlier candidates.

I just don't like the overall package.