In which I try to answer your questions about modern politics.... Get full, free access to Letters from an American here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe Resources: https://redwine.blue/ https://www.commoncause.org/take-action/ https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member 00:00 - Welcome 01:16 - Who does and doesn’t have power right now 04:04 - Where power actually landed: Musk, Vought, Miller, RFK Jr. 06:00 - What Russell Vought wants: destroy the modern American state 07:38 - What Miller wants: a white-nationalist crackdown 08:15 - What RFK Jr. wants: roll back germ-theory based public health 09:00 - Why these agendas are deeply unpopular: ICE, public health 12:13 - Where is this all going? Trump’s mental state, Epstein files 15:17 - Stephen Miller appears to be calling the shots 16:41 - Miller painting dissenters as insurrectionists 18:57 - Why does Trump keep talking about the Insurrection Act? 22:27 - What is the Insurrection Act 27:11 - Miller’s claim about “plenary authority” 30:05 - So what does this mean going forward?