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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A blustery Donald Trump statement threatening large tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports (plus increased tariffs on Chinese goods) raises the question of why the outgoing Biden administration, the lame-duck Congress, and the broader civil society have taken few proactive steps to create obstacles to coming Trump abuses.

Matt and Brian discuss:

* Is the opposition simply exhausted?

* Do Democrats and Trump-wary Republicans in Congress simply think he’s full of shit?

* Is it wiser to take a wait-and-see approach (will Pete Hegseth actually be confirmed? does Trump really intend to impose these tariffs?) than to push back before the damage is done?

Then, behind the paywall, a more detailed discussion of how the administration is battening down the hatches ahead of Trump’s presidency, and what more should be done. Is it better to frustrate Trump’s ambitions than to let him sweep in and do toxic, politically damaging stuff? Can institutional memory be preserved, outside the administration if necessary, so Trump can’t do irrevocable damage to stuff the government does well? And what’s a better, holistically: honey or maple syrup? Opium or cocaine?

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0:00.0	We'll see if we can still get maple syrup by next week, or if it's all dried up.
0:04.2	Or frankly, I'm concerned my fentanyl dealer is going to run out because of these new Trump policies.
0:10.7	How did the, like, the Robert F. Kennedy types feel about maple syrup, honey?
0:15.0	Is it good because it's raw food?
0:17.6	Or is it bad because it's full of sugar and calories?
0:21.2	Is it a seed oil?
0:23.1	No, it comes straight from the heart of the tree, right?
0:25.8	Yes.
0:30.4	Hey, everyone, you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast.
0:35.3	So prior to 2016 and definitely prior to 2020, we in the United States had gotten
0:41.2	pretty good at doing presidential transitions. But nothing involving Donald Trump goes
0:47.3	according to plan. And this transition is no exception. So we wanted to take a broad look
0:53.0	at how the government is preparing or not for the
0:56.8	hostile takeover that Donald Trump has planned, what non-government entities are doing to make sure
1:02.6	there are at least some guardrails around him, and what we think they should be doing before
1:07.5	it's too late. So I hope you enjoy the conversation. And if you want to hear the whole
1:11.4	thing, you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.fm.
1:19.8	Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boyler.
1:23.7	I'm Matthew Glacios. So we had planned to talk at some length this week about how the federal government is or isn't
1:30.8	planning for the incoming Trump administration, why we think it would be good for various
1:35.4	agencies and departments to be maybe like a bit more active than usual about locking things down,
1:41.9	finishing up their work, burrowing government officials in. And we're
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