I just listened as well (Friday AM) and echo your sentiments on timing as well as the sense that--even when taped--the level of alarm is short of where I think it should be. On the domestic front, I am less concerned with specific policies (which can be undone) than I am with the *possibility* of much continued and much great erosions to the norms of governance that have been part of the system of checks and balances. We are seeing that elements of the Constitution that give the Executive Branch much greater power (recess appointments, the ability to adjourn Congress, the fact that the 22nd Amendment amazingly does not foresee the possibility of a two term President running as VP) are elements that apparently assumed people of good character to be in the office which is clearly not the case. And in foreign affairs, policies and actions can actually be quite dangerous and in many ways cannot be undone (I.E. the weakening of US resolute support of allies).
I hope and trust that Eric and Eliot will start to see that more clearly and realize that even policies with which they agree may also create risks for the Republic based on the manner in which they are decided upon and executed.
I just listened as well (Friday AM) and echo your sentiments on timing as well as the sense that--even when taped--the level of alarm is short of where I think it should be. On the domestic front, I am less concerned with specific policies (which can be undone) than I am with the *possibility* of much continued and much great erosions to the norms of governance that have been part of the system of checks and balances. We are seeing that elements of the Constitution that give the Executive Branch much greater power (recess appointments, the ability to adjourn Congress, the fact that the 22nd Amendment amazingly does not foresee the possibility of a two term President running as VP) are elements that apparently assumed people of good character to be in the office which is clearly not the case. And in foreign affairs, policies and actions can actually be quite dangerous and in many ways cannot be undone (I.E. the weakening of US resolute support of allies).
I hope and trust that Eric and Eliot will start to see that more clearly and realize that even policies with which they agree may also create risks for the Republic based on the manner in which they are decided upon and executed.