Center for American Progress

And I hope that these are things that, you know, we can agree on, whether we are liberals or we are socialists or, you know, wherever you may fall on the isms spectrum.

And I mean, to maybe add a hopeful hope, sorry, and to maybe add a hopeful note here, Actually, Jared Bernstein, who was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under Biden, has just started this project at the Center for American Progress on price controls for essentials, including, for example, a policy package for food affordability that involves a price policy for a basket of essentials that is modeled on the Mexican case, which is a case that I've been talking about quite a bit in recent years and I think is a big inspiration that I'm also talking about in the book, where the idea is that You know, you define a basket of essential goods and then the price of this basket is kept stable through an agreement between the grocery chains and the state.

And in most cases, the grocery sector is extremely concentrated.

So it's really just a handful of companies that dominate that sector.

were going to have Lawrence Summers do project 2029, I believe.

And then he got taken out by his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, if I remember correctly, at Center for American Progress.

Yeah.

And those efforts are important because you can take these big ideas, you can take these narratives.

Right.

You've got really political ones, most famously the Heritage Foundation on the right, Center for American Progress on the left.

And you've got a whole bunch of bipartisan like like we are or very technical think tanks.

And then you've got an array.

Some very clearly know exactly what they're doing.

They're very focused on their mission and their mission might not be, you know, it's not our mission.

You know, you know, the Center for American Progress, their mission is to get Democrats elected.

heritage has a very, very clear, explicit mission.

So that's the trick of the whole center centrist thing.

And, you know, people like the Center for American Progress, et cetera, they all fall for that.

They're all busy fighting the left.

Right.

Benjamin Hovland, who was ousted by Mr. Trump from the Independent Bipartisan Federal Election Assistance Commission earlier this year, said he worried the various actions By the administration, we're serving a pretext for lawsuits after election day based on dubious claims of non-citizen voting and fraud in the electoral process.

What the DOJ is tipping its hand to is stepping in as essentially the president's personal law firm to try to undercut the credibility of election results they don't like, said Mr. Hovland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

And that is a pretty horrible process.

Ending on a lighter note, old enough for a driver's license, they're in no rush.

Benjamin Hovland, who was ousted by Mr. Trump from the Independent Bipartisan Federal Election Assistance Commission earlier this year, said he worried the various actions By the administration, we're serving a pretext for lawsuits after election day based on dubious claims of non-citizen voting and fraud in the electoral process.

What the DOJ is tipping its hand to is stepping in as essentially the president's personal law firm to try to undercut the credibility of election results they don't like, said Mr. Hovland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

And that is a pretty horrible process.

Ending on a lighter note, old enough for a driver's license, they're in no rush.