Yuval Levin

If I thought this was a legitimate prosecution, I would feel differently about it.

We've talked here about change the administration is making that may not be durable, institutions that they are intimidating that might snap back into their older form in a couple of years if Trump is succeeded by a Democratic president and the system is held.

But I think there's one institution, movement, culture that is changing, which is the right itself.

what it means to be a 20-something ambitious young Republican or young conservative or whatever term you want to use for it.

I mean, this is a world you're much more enmeshed in than I am, but we all know that Washington is run by 20-somethings and 30-somethings.

And the ideological trends and movements around

among young, ambitious politicos at any given moment do tend to seep out into the system pretty quickly.

So from your perspective, you know, the kind of traditionally conservative think tank, how do you see the right changing and particularly the young right changing?

Do you see this as a story of continuity?

I mean, people can look back at Sam Tannenhaus's recent biography of William F. Buckley, and you see America First movements and John Bircher's.

And I mean, there's always been this strain.

you know, Pat Buchanan and David Duke and, you know, running for governor in Louisiana?

Or is this something new?

You described the sort of near-apocalypticism, which I see too.

You talked about despair.

I would call it a kind of like cynical nihilism.

Or is this really something new?

Is something new taking over?

I think that's the place to end.

Always our final question.