Quotation of the Day
3rd September 2025
One great thing about Donald Trump: He’s not a lawyer. He’s not an economist, and he’s not a lawyer. I know that sounds like fairly faint praise, but actually the extent to which the legalistic mind or the economic mind have dominated political decision-making and government policy is completely disproportionate. It’s created, as I said, you know, this kind of HR-ification of the Democratic party, where it’s all about codification and internal consistency. Now, this value of consistent theory, that’s kind of a middle-class educated shibboleth. You know, the idea that you absolutely have to be consistent. This is going back to the beginning of the conversation, you can’t be completely consistent because what is actually rational is very very context-dependent. Sometimes you should actually back down, sometimes you should be highly concilatory, sometimes you should get angry.