Government by Deal: What Happens When Everything Becomes Negotiable?

Описание: The government feels louder and faster than ever: executive actions, constant disruption, everything happening at once.

But Yuval Levin of ‪@AEI‬ argues that all this motion may be masking something deeper. He explains why durable change comes from laws passed by Congress - not one-off deals- and why the shift from rule-making to deal-making could shape the future in unexpected ways.

Timecodes:
00:00 Why the Chaos Might Be Hiding Something Bigger
00:41 Meet Yuval Levin: Institutions, Norms, and the Erosion You Don’t See
01:28 Action vs. Durable Change: Why This Presidency May Be Doing Less
03:15 No Master Plan? Execution vs. Real Transformation
04:34 Governing ‘Retail’ vs. ‘Wholesale’: Deals, Calls, and One-Off Interventions
06:12 The Spending Reality Check: DOGE, Budgets, and Why Spending Didn’t Drop
08:40 Why Private Deals Are So Tempting
10:40 Leverage Over Universities, Law Firms, and Business and the Pressure to ‘Play Ball’
13:32 Can We Scale Back Federal Leverage? Congress, Institutions, and Dependency
15:14 Tech Giants and the Power of the Government
17:39 The Real Fix: Congress Reasserts Itself
21:21 If Everything Becomes a Deal: Corruption and the Loss of Rule of Law
22:40 Why Immigration Is Different: More ‘Wholesale’ Policy That Actually Sticks
25:18 Stability as an Invisible Subsidy: The Benefits of Predictability
27:11 A Lesson for Future Presidents: Strength in Restraint and Working with Congress
29:01 3 Takeaways

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