Jon Meacham on Trump/Elon Feud: Personalities Here Matter Enormously; This Affects All of Us

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MEACHAM: "You know, Emerson was right. There is properly no history, only biography. You know, personalities here matter enormously. And President Trump has always been an exaggerated example of how one person’s character, one person’s vices and the view of his admirers, his virtues, affect all of us. And there is, as Ali was just saying, this is an enormously important piece of legislation. It could set certainly the next three years, perhaps beyond that, which is an enormous amount of time when you’re talking about the power and scope of what the federal government does in people’s lives. And the nature of that now is somewhat in the hands, somewhat in play because of this kind of billionaires', you know, non-Brokeback Mountain moment. And so what we’re — I think what we’re looking at is legislatively a really, really interesting political question, which is, will Republican members of Congress find some courage in this, find some margin to oppose the president, to keep pushing on certain elements, because they now have someone else to be afraid of?”