e was on the show because I guess he's got a book out now that's called Abundance that's getting a lot of buzz. Now the Democrats as you know don't have any leadership and they seem to be rallying around this book. So Maher again trying to find that logical middle ground was supporting the idea of needing to cut overregulation. Here's what their newest smartest guy Ezra Klein said about that. He said that you don't want to use the word deregulate. That the Democrats should stop talking about deregulation because the word has a bad meaning to them. And that instead they should talk about some rules are good and some are bad.

Now do you know what that sounds like? That sounds like another prominent Democrat saying the only thing wrong is our message. Again the only thing wrong is the word. No it's not the word. The word was never the problem. Everybody likes deregulation if they've ever tried to get anything done. The only people who wouldn't like deregulation are people who have never had to get anything done in the real world. You know people just collecting a check or however they live. But if you tried to build something, I think Bill Maher tried to change his roof to make it less burnable and ran into the regulation wall. So even Bill Maher thinks we have too many regulations and says California needs an Elon Musk to deregulate it. Now that's about as far as you could possibly go into the total common sense part of the world. Yes common sense DOGE is getting rid of too many regulations. Yes we need one in California because California has too many regulations.

And what does Klein say about that? He changes the subject. Here's their best and brightest at the moment. And he says that the real weakness for Trump is the economy. So that the Democrats should be talking about the economy. So he basically completely ignores that gigantic common sense area that Maher is trying to populate and he just won't go there because common sense doesn't win it for Democrats. But you can say things about Trump's handling of the economy that the average person won't know if you're right or wrong. So they can say things like oh he's using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Well that doesn't mean anything. And it also doesn't tell you which one was the right tool. Maybe he is using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Now can you tell me what was the right tool? What was the right tool and what do you base that on? It's just ridiculous word play. You know it's just throwing words at something. There's no argument there whatsoever.

If the argument was 100% of the time people try to go hard it doesn't work out well that could be easily debunked because there are plenty of cases where the smartest people in the world will tell you you know it's better to go fast and make some mistakes and then fix them. So even their most basic thing they say is not based on any argument whatsoever. It's just hoping that their cast doesn't know the difference.

And then Ezra says that Trump's weak on the economy because he's going to do poorly on the economy. What exactly would be Ezra Klein's qualifications for judging Trump on economics? Well I looked at his educational background and it's political science. So how does he know that Trump's doing poorly on economics and what area would that be? Would it be tariffs that they pretend they don't understand is a negotiating position? If your opinion is that Trump will be bad on economics because you personally don't understand that the tariff thing is a negotiating stick that's just you being bad at understanding things. That has nothing to do with Trump being bad at economics because we don't know how that's going to turn out.

But like I said yesterday if you were to fast forward two years do you think our trade deals will be worse than they were before the tariffs? Does anybody think that? Do you think they'll be the same? Almost certainly. You know nothing's 100% but almost certainly all of this tariff stuff is going to result in getting stuff we want, either more help on fentanyl at the border or better trade deals. And we're already seeing movement in that direction. So is Ezra Klein the tariff expert? What about inflation? What about all this cost cutting and deregulation? I don't know any business person who is against any of that.

So what exactly are the places that Ezra Klein is looking at to suggest that Donald Trump is bad at economics? I don't see it. To me it looks like every move has been on point from the gold card to tariffs to eggs from Turkey and South Korea to opening up our energy markets to bringing all these big investments in from other countries and possibly unwinding our financial involvement in Ukraine. So where's the bad economy part? Well what is he even looking at? These are such weak leadership claims. They're absolutely empty. They've got nothing to them and there's nobody even smart talking about it anyway.

And then Klein says that Trump only wins with voters who don't like to think about politics and are not watching the news. Do you want to know another way to say that? That Trump is popular with people who have not been brainwashed by one area of the news. That's the really brainwashed more than anything else. Now as I've often said I'm pretty sure that Trump voters have at least a passing understanding of what the people on the left believe but also what they believe. The people on the left seem to only understand what they believe. So the people who are opposed to Trump are only taking a steady diet of pure propaganda from the pure propaganda news sites. But their take on that is that they're the ones who were right. The ones who are exposed to pure propaganda because they don't know their news is not real.

And one of the things that I've said that gives me great peace is you can't really have a political conversation with someone who thinks their news sources are real. You can't. How man