If Donald Trump keeps faith with his promises in any way, and that's an open question,

and I don't believe he will do the no tax on tips, I don't believe he will do the no tax on Social Security,

I don't believe he will do the no tax on overtime.

But he will do the tariffs, and he will make some effort to do the deportation of illegal aliens,

which he has not thought through at all.

And we are very soon going to have some network

of some system of surveillance and detention. And when Americans see that, they are not going to like

it one bit. Welcome to beg to differ, the bulwarks weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork.

And I'm joined by our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker, who writes the substack newsletter notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the Nings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker, who writes the Substack Newsletter Notes from the Middle Ground,

and Linda Chavez of the Niskanen Center.

Our special guest this week is the Atlantic's David Frum.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is not where we hoped we would be a week ago,

and it was a very short evening, as it turned out,

instead of the protracted counting that many of us were anticipating.

Maybe that's a good thing.

But at least it didn't stretch out.

At least there were no cries of a stolen election.

It's amazing that the deep state stole the 2020 election

and then forgot how to do it this time.

That's interesting.

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