Raging Moderates: How Trump Remade American in Just One Year

Hey, folks. Preet here. While Stay Tuned is on break this week, we're bringing you a special episode of the Vox Media podcast, the raging moderates, hosted by author and professor Scott Galloway and political strategist in Fox News' The Five cohost, Jessica Tarloff. In this episode, Scott and Jessica take stock of a dizzying year in American politics. They break down how Trump's return to office in 2025 reshaped the presidency, the economy, and US institutions. Then they turn to AI. How should Democrats respond when voters are anxious, states are being sidelined, and Congress can't seem to act? And finally, they revisit the moments of 2025 that gave them hope. I hope everyone has a very happy holiday season. Stay tuned. We'll return in the new year. Now, on to the show. Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway. And I'm Jessica Jarlo. Okay, Jess. In today's episode of Raging Moderates, we're discussing how Trump changed America in 2025, how Democrats should address AI, and our favorite moments of 2025. Alright. Let's get into it. Time named the architects of AI as person of the year. But in just one year back in office, Donald Trump has arguably done more than anyone to reshape how American power operates. So Trump two o has moved really quickly. Mhmm. Our relationship with Europe is is basically in the shitter after decades of stability. New tariffs, let's go back to the nineteenth century in terms of economic policy and then promise rebate checks when it doesn't work to farmers, but the rebate check supposedly coming to American citizens. At least mine hasn't showed up. No. I'll go check my mailbox. There you go. Maybe it's direct deposit. His health care plan collapsed in Congress as aggressive immigration enforcement expanded through executive authority and the justice department, pardon power have basically been monetized and are now just corrupt tools for a corrupt administration. And ethics controversies from foreign gifts to the Epstein files have just been stacking up. Politically, he does the president does look weaker. His approval on the economy and immigration has fallen. Cost of living pressures persist, and there are cracks forming inside the GOP marked by a Trump backed mayoral loss in Miami, open rebellion on Capitol Hill, and warnings of a rough midterm look, much less the mayoral race in New York where Cuomo, I think, was sort of associated or linked to Trump, if you will. And yet the deeper shift or rift doesn't appear to be going away. Federal agencies have been centralized and pushed at unprecedented speed. Congress has struggled to check the presidency, and a mag of new right ideology skeptical of liberal democracy has gained real institutional power. Even if Trump falters, the system he's reshaped may not snap back. Jess, first off, do you I'm curious. Do you think it should have been the architects of AR or should have been Trump in 2025 times first of the year? I don't …