All of these amount to right all of these different areas Which are the key policy priorities coming in have become vehicles for a gigantic power grab And that is the fundamental story of this administration is the president saying I can do whatever I want Try and stop me Well now that you've congratulated yourself on nailing it I kid But seriously, I yeah, is there anything I was gonna ask has anything really surprised you up to this point for in a good or Bad way, but maybe another way to ask that is I think it was true unexpected happen I think I was trying to get at that which is the brazenness of the way in which they have attempted to disregard the law to Accomplish this power centralization and it's a stunning to me And one thing I got I got wrong if we want to keep doing this as I wrote a piece saying You know what my predictions for the Trump administration and I do think they've mostly been right But the one that I got wrong is that I said Elon Musk would be less important than it seemed like you would and that Was just like completely totally Incorrect Elon Musk Defined this lawlessness like he really pioneered the I'm just going to do stuff and try and stop me Approach to remaking the federal government.

So that is where you start to get kind of a centralization of four gospels and of the letters of Paul.

sort of this era of centralization in a lot of parts of the economy.

and you could get a tailored step-by-step plan to permanently fix your back or sciatica issues following my centralization process.

MAZAR: Such a huge structure shows centralization

But whilst there are plenty of individual policy areas where he has changed his view— and we can have a discussion about whether changing your view in politics is a laudable thing or not— on this creed of diagnosing a central problem in the UK, and in England in particular, of over-centralization, there's a thread of consistency going back a long way.