Hey everybody I'm very excited to have David Starkman back as my guest on the show and I think the last time I had a mind I described him initially as a

nemesis of mine back in the 1980s when he was Ronald Reagan's budget director and I blamed him for dismantling a lot of the environmental infrastructure and and cutting the budget many social programs that were sacred

cows to my generation of liberals and our views on on most issues today have coalesced in a way that is

I'm very happy about because David is an extraordinarily eloquent articulator and leader of people who want to bring sanity back to government.

I'll tell you a few biographical facts about him. He was born in Fort Hood, Texas.

He graduated from Michigan State University attended the Harvard Divinity School and then went to Washington as a congressional

aid in 1970. David was elected as Michigan Congressman in 76 and joined the

Reagan White House in 1981, serving as Budget Director, who is one of the key

architects of the Reagan Revolution, planned to reduce taxes, cut spending, and shrink the role of government. He joined Solomon Bob Brothers in

1985, later became one of the early partners of Blackstone Group. During early two decades of Blackstone and

he founded a Hartland industrial partners, Solomon was a private equity investor.

He is the author of three best- books, The Triumph of Politics, The Great

Defirmation was the Corruption of Capitalism in America. The Triumph of Politics

incidentally is followed by the subheading Why the Reagan Revolution

failed. And his 2016 book, Trumped a nation on the brink of ruin, how to bring it back. And now his recent book,

Peak Trump, The Un Drainable Swamp and the Fantasy of MAGA, that's 2019, he is currently a publisher of a daily blog called The Contra Corner, which is a blog, one of the few

bloggers that I read safely, one is because it's brilliant, but also it's beautifully written. David writes like a poet.

And he's very, very fun to read and it's described as the place where mainstream delusions and can't about the welfare

state, the bailout state, bubble finance and beltway banditry are riff if you didn't

review. I would describe the principal nexus for where our views of

color have coalesced are the abhorrence that both of us share for corporate

Roney capitalism and its takeover of the American government.

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