Musk and Bezos are making deals with Trump.
Bizarre.
9:10 “America’s Oligarch moment makes this more like 1990’s Russia than we want to believe. Russian democracy died because their institutions and politicians were not strong enough to enforce the law; sound familiar? I can identify half a dozen laws Elon Musk has already broken without enforcement, Bezos censored the Post because he knows that nobody will enforce the law and keep Trump from seeking political retribution.”
11:30 “Let’s not lose sight of the fact that all this is being driven, ultimately, it’s not the only issue, but I do believe it is very much the central issue, is by race. By the question of race. And that is a particularly American problem because of our history of slavery and our history of hostility to immigrants.
“-the immigration issue is a race issue…..as Trump (has said) it is about poisoning the blood. Race is at the root of all this.”
Kagan and Krystol talk at the end about violence and how this “is just getting as ugly as it can possibly be.” To me, much of this seems like a continuation of “Democracy in Chains.”
The book that changed my whole worldview.
Ice on the Moon 