Nick, I must have told you this about a dozen times at this point, but I will never forget

when a British friend of mine, and this was a few years ago, heard of some recent turn

of political events that she disagreed with in the United States, and she just goes,

okay, so when does your secret shadow government step in?

Isn't it about time for that?

You have told me the story a dozen times.

Well, I think when things go off the rails or seem to go off the rails, the question

is often, who is in charge here?

Isn't anyone going to do anything about this?

Yeah, especially when you're talking about big federal business, national goings-on.

It's also high level and it's outside of our power.

Part of the reason civics 101 got started is that after the 2016 election, listeners

kept writing in to ask us, can that government official actually do that?

Is that legal?

And we were like, I don't know.

We'll ask someone for you.

That's true and it's exactly what we do.

And more often than not, the answer has been that person can do that unless someone else

notices it and does something about it.

Yeah, well, today we're going to talk about what it looks like when someone does something

about it or tries to.

This is civics 101.

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