#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics

5735.274 - 5761.182 Lex Fridman

Well, as I've learned from one of the recommendations of the age of acrimony, I feel embarrassed that I didn't know that senators used to not be elected. What a crazy system, huh? Yeah. I mean, many of the things we take for granted now as defining our democracy was... was kind of invented, developed after the Civil War, in the sort of 50 years after the Civil War. Absolutely correct.