531 | Saagar Enjeti: The Trump Vibe Shift Hits Washington

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss the ways that President Trump's second term could differ from his first, where a second Trump presidency could go right or wrong, and what longstanding political questions were settled in the 2024 election.

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0:00.0	Marshall and Sager here. Welcome back to the realignment. So we are recording this episode before
0:13.7	Trump's inauguration, but considering the start of this podcast, we're being shaped by Sager and
0:19.7	my experiences during the first Trump
0:22.1	presidency.
0:22.7	This is like the perfect time and you're the perfect person Sager to talk through what
0:27.2	Trump 2 means for D.C. That said, I would love because folks love when you kind of give
0:34.5	like the insider outsider sort of read on this.
0:38.2	Trump won. Actually, let's not even start there. We met at G.W. So we first met during Obama's
0:45.0	DC. You have Trump's DC. You have Biden's DC. What differentiates the mood in Washington right
0:52.1	now from those three different eras? I think Trump, too, in terms of Washington, is most analogous to 08 and probably to 04.
1:06.8	And what I mean by that is it feels like big questions were settled.
1:11.8	Businesses can make confident bets.
1:15.6	Politicians have a stable.
1:18.7	They have a bench that they can draw from.
1:20.7	There's a coherent-ish agenda that people kind of agree on.
1:26.2	Again, there's going to be a lot of inconsistencies there's still a lot
1:28.6	of wars except but it's not even comparable to 2017 and so if you think about 04
1:34.9	Bush is selected actually similar to Trump I mean selected not elected 9-11 K I mean it was
1:42.6	insane right was totally crazy and whenever Bush came in he still didn't really know who he was insane, right? It was totally crazy.
1:47.2	And whenever Bush came in, he still didn't really know who he was.
1:49.3	And he had all this, like, incoherent cabinet.
1:50.9	By 04, we're in Iraq.
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