And my concern was, look, if you create the precedent for doing this, the next Democrat president, the next. If we have a President Bernie Sanders or President Elizabeth Warren, they're going to declare an emergency on climate change, they're going to declare an emergency on gun violence and use it to justify all sorts of bad policies. So I had a second theory that would have done 100% of the upside without the downside of the bad pressing. And I pitched it to Lindsey, and Lindsey was like, yeah, that makes sense. (37:04–37:15)
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