"so people need to go back and read the history of the first 100 days under FDR the sheer amount of legislation that went through his ability to bring Congress to heal and the Senate he gets all this s..."

"he's such an inspirational figure I think of Johnson and of Nixon of Teddy Roosevelt even of FDR I can give you a laundry list of personal problems that all those people had I think they had really re..."

"change really anything beyond the marginal every once in a while you have a figure like Teddy Roosevelt who's actually able to take peacetime presidency and transform the country but it needs an extra..."

"individual who wrote a book in 1939 called why England slept which to this day is considered a a a text which at the moment was able to describe in detail why Neville Chamberlain and the British polit..."

"made me understand the media people don't want to be informed they want to feel informed the following is a conversation with Sagar and Jetty his second time in the podcast Sagar is a political commen..."

"in the description and now dear friends here's Saga and Jetty so let's start with the obvious big question what do you think Trump won let's break it down before the election you said that if Trump wi..."

"Ballot Box so that's that but I think it's actually much deeper at a psychological level for who America is and what it is and fundamentally I think what we're going to spend a lot of time talking abo..."

"not the Central American figure and there's stories uh in World War II where troops were on the front line some of 18 19 years old FDR died and they literally said well who's the president and they sa..."

"attend a four-year college degree institution or not and this is a crazy thing to say Donald Trump is one of the most racially depolarizing uh electoral figures in American history we lived in 2016 at..."

"that's a really fundamental problem for the modern left is erased a lot of the conversation around Jerry mandering around uh the Electoral College the so-called electoral bi college bias towards Repub..."

"love covering it I love thinking about it talking about it talking to people it's awesome one of the reasons I'm a big fan of yours is uh you're a student of history and so you recommended a bunch of ..."

"although if if that's your L lens you could get there so there's a a very big statistic going around right now where kamla Harris increased her vote share and won households over $100,000 or more uh a..."

"things in there like can you name various different military ranks I can because I'm a history nerd but the vast majority of college educated people don't know anybody who served in the United States ..."

"divide in America and I actually think that's what this revolution of uh Donald Trump was activating and bringing people to the polls bringing a lot of those traditional workingclass voters of all Rac..."

"movement is dead I don't know um I mean it's very difficult to say because wokeism itself is not a movement with a party leader it's a amorphous uh belief that has worked its way through institutions ..."

"and you think the reason it doesn't work well in practice is because it there's a big degree to which it's anti meritocracy it's anti-American really I mean uh you know Dei and woke and affirmative ac..."

"which are really at odds like in a lot of ways like wokeism racialism and all this is a third world ideology it's one that's very prevalent in Europe and in uh all across Asia but it doesn't mix well ..."

"reason I recommend that book is if you read that book and you understand then you know how exactly could this group of white workingclass voters for go from 2012 voting for a man named Barack Hussein ..."

"it got me excited to be an American me too I love that book it's crazy that JD the same guy because that's uh hillbilly El is what I kind of thought of him as yeah yeah I mean I'll tell you for me it'..."

"decided to vote for him in 2024 so let's talk about 2024 what what happened with uh with the left what happened with Biden what's your take on on Biden Biden is um I try to remove myself from it and I..."

"even though things didn't even materially change the Vigor that's a term that was often associated with John F Kennedy at Viga you know in the Massachusetts accent we had this young vibrant president ..."

"FDR the sheer amount of legislation they went through his ability to bring Congress to heal and the Senate he gets all this stuff through but as you and I know legislation takes a long time to put int..."

"throughout American history have suffered from a bad case of arrogance and narcissism absolutely but sometimes to a benefit you know you have to be a pretty crazy person to be uh to want to be preside..."

"everything around you there's a famous story of uh Ladybird Johnson after Johnson becomes the president he's talking to the White House Butler and she was like everything in this house revolves around..."

"and he was a deeply sad and depressed individual yeah I saw that tweet to go back to that and also I listened to your incredible debate about it with Marshall on the realignment podcast and I have to ..."

"decision by Graham Allison I'm so thankful we did it's one of the foundations of political science because it lays out theories of how government works this is also a useful transition by the way if w..."

"day is considered a a a text which at the moment was able to describe in detail why uh Neville Neville Chamberlain and the British political system arrived at the policy of appeasement I actually have..."

"giant uh organization that's just doing things how it's always been done and the government politics model of there's just these individual internal power struggles within government yes and all of th..."

"theories that you laid out which are not about the rational interest as the government is one model with the bureaucratic Theory and the organizational theory of politics and because what Trump I don'..."

"you we got one two and three now who has the power is it Trump when he picks one two or three or is the man who decides what even in option one two and three that is the part where Trump needs to real..."

"unfortunately are basically creating a mass you know un it's it's basically it's a non-citizen population of illegal immigrants people who are not a skilled uh you know I think it was I read 27% of th..."

"States in my opinion should be net positive without doing fake statistics about oh they actually increased the GDP or whatever it's like we need a merit-based immigration system we are the largest cou..."

"necessity of mass deportation and he has the background to be able to carry that out I will give some warnings um and this will apply to Doge too Zar has no statutory or constitutional Authority uh Za..."

"law enforcement if maybe the largest law enforcement agency in the world it's gigantic you have extraordinary statutory power to be able to approve investigations you have border patrol ice TSA CBP al..."

"whatever there's a rumor nobody knows if it's true that Cory leowski and kiry gome had a previous relationship and ongoing Cory lowski is a trump official and that he may be put her in front I don't k..."

"team with you you need to make sure that everything is being done by the book the way that the media is being handled is that you throw every question back in their face and you say you know you eithe..."

"from the US and another thing that the open borders people don't ever really grapple with is that even within their own framework it makes no sense so for example a common leftwing talk point is that ..."

"really nice to be bleeding heart and to say oh well we have responsibility to this and to all mankind and all that but just it doesn't work it doesn't work with a nation state it doesn't work with a S..."

"but another thing is even if we turn the switch and we still let in a Million million five people a year under the chain Bas the chain family based migration I think it would be a colossal mistake bec..."

"he makes an argument against open borders the thesis there is a simulation should be a big part MH I guess there's some kind of optimal rate of immigration which allows for simulation yeah and there a..."

"immigration as an idea but immigration is also a discreet policy and that policy was really screwed up by the Biden Administration and so we can celebrate the idea and also pursue a policy for all of ..."

"articulated by the president and of course he needs to think about it um the truth is is America right now is built on cheap labor it's not fair to the consumer it's not fair to the immigrants the ill..."

"person either uh so that's the point the point is is that it will lead to a lot of social upheaval but this gets to my kiry gnome Point as well is you need to be able to articulate a lot of what I jus..."

"it takes agency away from then you know another really key part of this dishonesty this really gets to Springfield and the whole Haitian thing because everybody you know beyond the eating cats and dog..."

"migrant implies permanency so the language is all dishonest and people don't want to tell you about the things I just said about chain migration you know the vast majority of Americans don't even know..."

"different CH separation was also a product of extremely strange circumstances in US immigration law where basically at the time the reason why it was happening was because there was no way to prosecut..."

"wrong my parents had to apply it wasn't easy do you know in India there's a Temple called the Visa Temple where you walk 108 times around it which is like a lucky number and if you do it when you're a..."

"also fixing the immigration system right yes exactly and uh I mean there are there are several pieces of legislation Chart 2 that's something that the Republicans have really coalesced around it's a b..."

"I've seen estimates of up to 30 million which is crazy that's almost oneth of the entire US population what number do you think we feel like Mass deportation 1 million people a million people is a lot..."

"had talking to a is he's big on mass deportation and big on making uh government more efficient and it really feels like there's a tension between those two in the short term well yes absolutely also ..."

"its entire case for being really if you think about it mechanically is to try and convince and provide a report to Republican legislators to be able to cut spending so that's that now we all know what..."

"only one way to do that um and it realistically under the current thing you have to radically change the entire way that the Pentagon buys everything um and I I support that but I just want to be very..."

"the with the megaphone but also just uh with other people who are also really influential MH I think that can have real power when backed by sort of a populist movement I don't disagree with you but l..."

"four years so will Elon still be interested in politics 6 years from now that's a legitimate question for Republican senator so maybe he could get the House of Representatives to sign off maybe on som..."

"as the executive to be a good Steward of the taxpayer money and to redesign a system which actually thinkon could be good at this and VI too in terms of their entrepreneurial spirit is the entire Pent..."

"become inevitable before the status quo can change that's really really frustrating but you should take comfort in that it's always been that way so it's been okay well as I've as I've learned from on..."

"from that book because one of the things I learned from the book is that voter participation is highest when people are pissed off not they're happy and that's such a counterintuitive thing but voter ..."

"a little asteris with KL Harris but yeah good Point um but uh well that was actually more of a mean reversion right we're living in an extraordinarily New Era where we actually have more input than ev..."

"still produce good stuff that was a kind of beautiful diversion from the Doge discussion if you're turn briefly to Doge sure um so we kind of talked about cost cutting but there's also increasing the ..."

"a new software you can just do it you can you hire whoever you want when you're the government there's a whole process you got to go through about bidding and it just takes for ever and it is so ineff..."

"that you know up until 1865 or 1860 what I forget the exact year we didn't even have National currency and then we were like well we need a green back and prior to that people would freak out if we we..."

"heard a lot of people in Silicon Valley laughing when uh Elon rolled in and fired 90% of Twitter here's this guy Elon Musk absolutely correct knows nothing about running a social media company of cour..."

"of the managers so I talked previously about the professional managerial class and the managerial Revolution Elan is one of the few people who's ever built a multi-billion dollar company who has not a..."

"that would be possible well I wouldn't put it that way I don't think slimness in and of itself is a good thing what I care about is the relationship to people and its government so the biggest problem..."

"unfortunate so what makes me hopeful at least this time is anytime a president wins a popular vote and an election is they have the ability to reset and to actually try and build something that is new..."

"though has many different categories immigration is one right is that cultural elitism and cultural liberalism has a fundamental belief that immigration in and of itself is a natural good at any and a..."

"ever seen because everyone's always like how can a neocon and Tulsi gabard and RFK and all these other people how can they all exist under the same umbrella and I'm like it's very simple all of them h..."

"you know Bernie Sanders was a person who railed against open borders and against Mass migration for years there are famous interviews of him on YouTube with Lou dos who's one of the most hardcore immi..."

"subsumed you know in the h ARA around cultural leftism wokeism whatever the hell you want to call it and that ultimately that cultural leftism was the thing that really United you know the two wings o..."

"support term limits on American presidents are you a fascist well that would imply uh that would imply that I don't believe in democracy I actually do believe in democracy because I think the people i..."

"and so that's where it really cost us if you're left wi and you're talking about Obama yeah I think Obama probably would have won in 2016 although it's a counterfactual because Obama was never challen..."

"that's what the American people wanted Trump too comes out of an election in 2012 where the literal GOP autopsy the report produced by the party says we need to be Pro Mass immigration what happens im..."

"immigration a Hardline position on immigration is this American Carnage idea that actually everything is wrong the American dream is is has gone you know we will we will stop this American Carnage and..."

"2012 victory basically says oh the GOP even now agrees with me on immigration and then he does DACA and he legalizes you know x million in a number of illegal immigrants who are here who are brought h..."

"Obama had a good sense in how to turn it on how to BN establishment correctly I will not deny that he's one of the most talented politicians literally to ever play the game um and he is I mean just un..."

"candid new Obama likee candidates well I'm glad you brought that up because that's important too in terms of the process and the way that things uh currently stand the DNC actually rigged its entire p..."

"do a debate I mean imagine history how lucky are we honestly that Joe Biden agreed to do that debate with Donald Trump early and again that was his arrogance um I think we're so lucky for it because i..."

"it's so rare um he adored his wife he adored his daughter spent time with them he made Family Life a priority he had really good small town judgment that he would apply to Foreign Affairs he was just ..."

"able to reconcile like problems within her office it didn't usually go public and then it would make it to the floor and it would pass so that there would be no General like media frenzy uh and you kn..."

"are powerful so I would make a good case for her yeah she's uh she's done a lot of remarkable stuff for for her party I will say they played Trump like a Fiddle Man last time around they were able to ..."

"Trump administration at the time and yeah I mean the amount of discipline that it took for her and Chuck to a lesser extent but for the two of them to pull that off it it was honestly impressive that ..."

"are we building can okay as people who do this for a living how do you even spend $100,000 to build a set for one interview this is the call her daddy the call her daddy thing okay how is that possibl..."

"went on a cubric uh binge man he was awesome I watched that World War I movie of his the one from the 50s that such an underrated film I I feel like people don't app whatever we'll get past yeah but s..."

"yeah it's really fucked up that's insane why do you think people on the left who are actually in the political Arena are afraid of doing anything longer than an hour that is a great question so so let..."

"actually fundamentally number one that's going to change dramatically so be optimistic and keep pushing but two is this is a good segue actually is I've been thinking a lot about I know a lot of peopl..."

"credentials itself and creates this opaque mechanism through which they control access you know to asking the press secretary questions is destroyed and there are a lot of different ways you can do th..."

"night and I'm look I'm small slice of the puzzle here we've got uh uh Candace Owens Patrick B David Tim P David Pacman tyt all these other people every from what I understand all of us blew it out tha..."

"there's a new Lottery process put in place where people with large audiences are invited and I also want to make a case here for why I think it's really important for people like you and others who do..."

"a historic thing Barack Obama shocked the White House Press score in 2009 because he took a question from The Huffington Post a brand new blog but they were stunned because he knew he said these blog ..."

"don't ask about this it's like actually that's probably one thing you should ask about um but my point being that the expectation is is that there's no interference on the White House side but that th..."

"quote of what the president said to something that I asked in a book that I would be happy I would die happy with that if you told me that when I'm like a 90-year old man I'd like man I that means I s..."

"I often tell people what if I told you that we lived in the most secure election period in modern history they wouldn't believe it but if you read through that shit I'm talking about bags of cash mill..."

"what it really looks like uh and so look I understand where people are coming from Also let's do what 1960 that was pretty wild I mean uh in 1960 there was all those allegations about Illinois going f..."

"one of the things it's harder to pull off a bunch of bullshit with all these cameras everywhere now transparency too lack of cash banking regulation there's a variety yeah so that said let's talk abou..."

"swing states to change mailin balloting laws as a response to covid which enabled millions of people more to vote that wouldn't have and that those change in regulations became enough to swing the ele..."

"IQ Galaxy brain stop the steel Galaxy brain stop the steel is one that you saw with great love and respect my friend JD Vance uh at his debate with Tim wals when Tim wals asked him what did he say he ..."

"uncomfortable so if you're raised Rich you need to go spend some time with poor people and consider that they might actually understand the world better than you well in some respects so I think a lot..."

"of looking at it and um I mean for example I I had this debate with Crystal and uh this gets to the whole uh Trump you know talking about the enemy from within and she was like he wants to prosecute h..."

"have to if you allow yourself to focus on a particular particular uh trajectory with a small probability it can become all-encompassing cuz you could see it you could see a path there are certain char..."

"so I would ask people to keep the faith it's 2024 and we still don't have all the JFK files okay everyone involved is dead there's no reason to let it go and even though we basically know what happene..."

"around it is go let's release some but these in particular there's National Security Secrets is a good case for not releasing them X Y andz you know it's like you get around that okay you know that ma..."

"know people often think that if we took money out of politics that it would change everything I'm not saying it wouldn't change everything but or it wouldn't change a lot but people are like oh so and..."

"just his first time he gave the speech the 2004 speech at the DNC that was his we don't live in Black America White America the John krey DNC speech you honestly could not have predicted it until 07 w..."

"the so-called leader of the Republican party so uh I could see it swing in the other direction I could see uh you know Republicans or others let's say if it's a total disaster and we get down to like ..."

"to be the president but you know you that's a big country people think differently by the way I share your bias and I sometimes try to take myself out of that bubble like it's maybe it's not important..."

"the uh I think the Democratic base is going to give Dean a shit ton of credit and they should uh for him being out look let's be honest he's a no-name congressman from Minnesota nobody cared who Dean ..."

"which are pursued uh because of the Elite's interests then it usually leads to to a miscalculation and a not a catastrophic defeat normally it comes gradually uh and you most of the times when these t..."

"what they were going through too H you know they have to go home and their entire cities are burned to the ground and they're trying to readjust and you know their entire econom economy and way of lif..."

"here uh there's so many cool things about America people move around all the time they buy new houses they start families they uh there's no other place you can just reset your whole life in the same ..."