Welcome to the podcast.

This is

Episode 365. My name is Douglas Wilson, and you are most welcome. Good to have you here. What I want to talk about here is New St. Andrews College and the two-year cultural political window that I believe we have. And when I say two-year window, perhaps it's a four-year window,

perhaps longer, but I think we should assume two years. How's that? Well, Donald Trump has

just been elected. He's just been inaugurated. And he came out of the gates furiously,

signing scores of executive orders, doing all kinds of things.

So he's got the ball. He's on the offense. He wants to get a bunch of things done.

And he has appointed a number of cabinet ministers who have a personal stake in not going native in Washington.

In 2016, Trump came in as a wrecking ball.

What he appears to want to do this time is to have 50 wrecking balls coming into Washington.

And I think he just really means business trying to pair everything

down. Okay. So there's that. And he has a mandate. He won the seven swing states. He won the

popular vote. He won a decisive victory in the electoral college. He has the control of the House. He has

control of the Senate. And there is a modest conservative majority on the Supreme Court. So there is

before us sort of open field running that Trump will be able to do an awful lot in the next two years. It's conceivable.

Let's say he has to do something that is unpopular. It's conceivable. The margin is so thin in the

House of Representatives that it's possible that the Republicans will lose the majority in the House of Representatives.

If they lose that, the House, then it is almost certain that all impeachment festivities are going to

start up again. I don't think there will be any appetite in Washington or in the rest of the country,

for that matter, for anything like the Mueller

investigation or anything like everything shuts down just because an impeachment process is underway.

And it won't go anywhere in the Senate anyway. I think it'll largely be ignored. But I think the

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