Yuval Levin
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has occurred out of our sightline.
Yeah, quite a lot.
Quite a lot.
There's things where we know, right?
We saw the FCC and Jimmy Kimmel.
I mean, there are a couple stories that really break through.
But there's a lot of quiet resignations and that sort of deeper corruption of the system.
And to your point about Donald Trump maybe not knowing that this was coming, to me that
in a strange way, makes it worse.
And what I was saying earlier about the way a normal policy process would work is you just would never.
You would never want to surprise the president.
with an attack on the Federal Reserve that would lead the Federal Reserve chair to release a video that might send markets into turmoil.
Somebody would want to know about that beforehand and weigh the cost-benefit of what you're about to do.
You could say the same thing, you know, maybe about the Kimmel situation.
It's more the fact that people think this is what the president wants.
And if it turns out badly, maybe he doesn't want it.
He only wants it if it turns out well.
But the sense that that signal has been sent out
And at all kinds of levels, from what ICE agents do to what career and political pointee, you know, prosecutors do, that this is what they think the White House wants.
Whether or not the White House told them to do it, that seems very significant to me.