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Steve Teles | The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (niskanencenter.org)Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected]

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected]. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and H.W. discuss the ways that FDR and Charles Lindbergh's debate over American intervention in WWII parallel today's debates over Ukraine and Taiwan, the origins of the phrase "America First," why non-interventionism shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, why FDR won the "great debate" with the America First Committee, even before Pearl Harbor, and how Lindbergh's story offers lessons for humility when approaching politics and war from the outsider's perspective.

Cost-of-Living Agenda Report: https://bringcostsdown.org/Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] Winslett, Chamber of Progress Senior Advisor, Middlebury College Professor, and author of the Democratic Cost-of-Living Agenda, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Gary discuss why voters rank rising costs as their top election concern, how housing, energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and childcare are limited by a lack of supply and rising costs, the case for the abundance agenda and supply-side progressivism, and the increasing bipartisan consensus in favor of reform.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] Boot, Washington Post columnist and author of Reagan: His Life and Legacy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Max discuss whether (unlike previous Republican Presidents and nominees) Reagan would have supported Trump, why the Reagan Era of American politics is coming to an end, whether Never Trump identifying conservatives have a future in the Republican Party, and why Biden's attempt to create a center-left version of Reagan's presidency failed.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] this month, Marshall moderated multiple panels at the Foundation for American Innovation's Reboot 2024: The New Reality. Today's episode is a conversation between Marshall, New York Times reporter Teddy Schleifer, and Bismark Analysis founder Samo Burja. They discuss the degree to which Silicon Valley has moved to the right during the Trump era, whether the post-Biden Democratic Party can win back the tech industry's center, and the role of the techlash in shifting the valley's ideology.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Foreign Affairs | Ro Khanna: The New Industrial AgeNew York Times | James Pogue: The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiRep. Ro Khanna, Congressman for California's 17th District and author of Progressive Capitalism: How to Make Tech Work for All of Us, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ro discuss his vision for the country, how to make America a manufacturing superpower again, what populists got wrong during the Trump-Biden era, why the Biden economic approach didn't resonate with voters, and the need to broaden the reindustrialization conversation away from semiconductors and clean energy.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall and Saagar discuss the fate of the pro-life movement and the GOP in the face of an increasingly pro-choice electorate, respond to attempts to revise our understanding of Osama bin Laden and 9/11, and respond to subscriber questions.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] week, Marshall moderated multiple panels at the Foundation for American Innovation's Reboot 2024: The New Reality. Today's episode is a conversation between Marshall, National Security Institute Executive Director Jamil Jaffer, Galvanick CEO and Trump National Security Council alum Josh Steinman, and SolidIntel CEO and former National Security Advisor to Senator Mitt Romney Megan Reiss. They discuss how America should adapt to an increasingly multipolar world order, what foreign and defense policy should look like in an era of limits, and the prospective foreign policies of former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiMatt Grossmann, Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, and co-author of Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Matt discuss how the growing diploma divide reshaped post-Cold War politics, how Democrats became the party of highly-educated Americans who trust credentialed experts and Republicans became populists supported by voters without college degrees who distrust institutions, why the culture wars increasingly feel perpetual, and how every aspect of non-political American culture politicized over the past 40 years.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Marshall and Saagar are back for a Labor Day weekend edition of The Realignment's AMA and discussion series for Supercast subscribers. They discuss Saagar's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, analyze the state of the race, answers subscriber AMAs, and more...

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James Pogue: The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their NosesJames Pogue: Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest BetsSubscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiJames Pogue, writer of multiple articles on neoliberalism, the New Right, and America after Neoliberalism, joins The Realignment. James and Marshall discuss his NYT article on Senator Chris Murphy's efforts to realign the Democratic Party, the cost of Neoliberalism, why the New Right has struggled to build a successful political movement, the disillusionment of young men, and why America is facing a crisis of identity and meaning despite material progress and economic plenty.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiMichael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Michael review the 2024 Democratic National Convention, discuss the Democratic Party's evolution since 2016, fight for working-class voters, why the party is swinging left on economics, but moving to the center on crime and immigration, and the prospects for economic and cultural populism moving forward.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/NYT on the emerging neopopulist consensus: A New Centrism Is Rising in WashingtonNiskanen: Geoff on the Rise of a New PragmatismReformocons: Can the GOP Be a Party of Ideas?Reihan Salam & Ross Douthat: The Party of Sam's ClubREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiGeoffrey Kabaservice, Niskanen's VP of Political Studies and author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, joins The Realignment. Geoffrey and Marshall discuss the rise of "neopopulism" and "a new centrism" in Washington, the evolution of the Republican Party since the Obama era, the case for a pragmatic approach to governance, the pros and cons of "moderation," and how the abundance agenda can learn from previous failed reform movements.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall and Saagar discuss Tim Walz's VP selection, the Trump campaign's struggles, the overall state of the race, answer subscriber questions, and more...

Inclusive Abundance Initiative: What is AbundanceDerek Thompson: A Simple Plan to Solve All of America's ProblemsSubscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiDerek Kaufman, Founder and CEO of the Inclusive Abundance Initiative, joins The Realignment. Following up on The Realignment's episodes with Niskanen's Steven Teles, Marshall and Derek flesh out the components of the abundance agenda, discuss why defining abundance as the central policy objective can sidestep culture war dead ends and build new coalitions, and explore opportunities for abundance minded politicians, activists, and staffers.

Nationaly Podcast: Nationly - Immigrantly (immigrantlypod.com)Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiProfessor Sara Sadhwani and journalist Juan Diego Ramirez join Marshall to discuss the role of race and identity in the 2024 election. Sara and Juan co-host Nationly, a limited election series podcast covering critical swing states through the lens of minority communities. They discuss why America is slowly but surely starting to depolarize away from race towards class identity, the contradictory roots of increasing Latino support for Trump, and the tension between individualism and the wider community.

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Trump’s pick of J.D. Vance as his running mate is seen by many as the culmination of a years-long realignment of Republican and conservative politics—away from trickle-down economics toward a more populist, worker-oriented direction. While the pick ushered in a flood of reactions and think pieces, it’s unclear at this stage what Vance’s impact would truly be in a Trump second term. Will Vance be able to overcome some of Trump’s more establishment-friendly positions on taxes and regulation? Will he advocate that Trump continue some of Biden’s policies on tech policy, particularly the administration’s actions against companies like Google, Amazon, and Apple? How might Vance influence policies on high-tech manufacturing, defense technology, and artificial intelligence? Evan is joined by Oren Cass, Chief Economist and Founder of American Compass and the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America. Read his recent op-ed in the New York Times on populism and his recent piece in Financial Times on Vance. Subscribe to his Substack, “Understanding America.”Evan is also joined by Marshall Kosloff, co-host of The Realignment podcast, sponsored by FAI, that has been chronicling the shifting politics of the U.S. for several years, as well as by Jon Askonas, professor of politics at Catholic University and senior fellow at FAI.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall and Saagar return from The Realignment's wedding summer break to discuss the state of the Democratic Party after VP Kamala Harris secured the nomination from Biden, the prospect for Senator JD Vance's VP nomination, the state of the Republican Party, and respond to subscriber Ask Me Anything Questions.

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In this quick audio essay, Marshall reacts to President Biden's exit from the 2024 campaign, analyzes the prospects for Vice President Harris, and wonders whether former President Trump is prepared for an election that could no longer be a referendum on Biden's unpopular presidency. Email your reaction to this past week's events: [email protected]

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiZack Beauchamp, Vox Senior Correspondent and author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World, joins The Realignment. Zack and Marshall discuss the American origins of the reactionary backlash against liberal democracy, the difference between conservatism and reactionary thought, and the case studies of Hungary, Israel, and India.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiIn a conversation recorded before the assassination attempt on former President Trump. Curt Mills, Executive Director of The American Conservative, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Curt discuss why he believes President Biden's 2024 campaign is underrated, the explanation for Democrats' lead in swing state Senate races despite Biden's trailing poll numbers, the state of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and the lessons from the 2022 midterm upset.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Reboot 2024: The New Reality (Use Code REALIGNMENT for a 25% discount on the gala and day-long conference).Vanity Fair - Jonathan Darman | What Biden Can Learn from LBJ's Decision to Drop Out in 1968REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiSeason Premiere: Jonathan Darman, journalist, historian, and author of Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America & Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jonathan discuss why efforts to convince or force President Biden to drop his reelection bid failed, how LBJ's decision to leave the race at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968 informs how we understand Biden's motivations, the ways that the 1944, 1968, 1980, and 1984 elections offer parallels to today, and why there hasn't been a landslide electoral victory by either party in decades.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Reboot 2024: The New Reality (Use Code REALIGNMENT for a 25% discount on the gala and day-long conference).The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com) National Affairs: Beyond Academic SectarianismThe Future Is Faction: The Future Is Faction | National AffairsREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiSteven Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment for the second half of his conversation. Steven and Marshall answer audience questions about the abundance agenda and America's factional political future, discuss his new National Affairs article examining the causes of conservative underrepresentation on college campuses, and explore what listeners who're interested building the abundance agenda's infrastructure should do next.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Aaron Renn on the source of American policy renewal: https://twitter.com/aaron_renn/status/1772976770028904577Reboot 2024: The New Reality (Use Code REALIGNMENT for a 25% discount on the gala and day-long conference).REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiAaron Renn, writer and Co-Founder of American Reformer, joins The Realignment. Aaron and Marshall discuss why despite his conservatism, he believes that the "neoliberal, non-woke-technocratic left" will be the source of American policy renewal, the case for the abundance agenda, populism's inability to solve the issues it identifies, the emerging bipartisan consensus around economic issues, and how today's political moment rhymes with that of the late 1970s.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the upcoming presidential debates between President Biden and former President Trump, the how and the why behind RFK Jr.'s lack of inclusion, the overall state of the race, and take audience questions.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Reboot 2024: The New Reality (Use Code REALIGNMENT for a 25% discount on the gala and day-long conference).REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiGen. Frank McKenzie, retired Commander of U.S. Central Command and author of The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Frank discuss his time at Central Command, from the strikes on Qassem Soleimani and two leaders of ISIS to deterrence operations against Iran and the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul. They also discuss The Melting Point's three themes: civilian control of the military, the role of the combatant commander, and the centrality of leaders in today's battlefield environment.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Reboot 2024: The New Reality (Use Code REALIGNMENT for a 25% discount on the gala and day-long conference).REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiJohn Ganz, author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss 2020s nostalgia for the 1990s, the misplaced belief that the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War represented the "end of history," the early 1990s rise of outsider, third-party presidential candidates, and the role that con men and conspiracy theories played in cracking up the country.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/Reboot 2024: The New Reality (Use Code REALIGNMENT for a 25% discount on the gala and day-long conference).REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiRuchir Sharma, author of What Went Wrong with Capitalism, joins The Realignment. In this episode, Ruchir argues that many of America's ills and the populace's rejection of the status quo stems from too little, as opposed to too much market-focused thought, offers a revisionist history of the post-1980s Neoliberal era, makes the case against the rising rate of government bailouts of private industry, and instead offers a vision focused on reducing debt, increasing productivity, and growth-focused deregulation.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall take a break from the daily news + current events grind and discuss the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, offer historical reading/viewing recommendations, and take audience questions.

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com)The Future Is Faction: The Future Is Faction | National AffairsREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiSteven Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. Steven and Marshall discuss why political factions within the left and right will upend the last thirty years of party politics, the poor track record of moderate reform efforts, the importance of enhancing state-capacity, the abundance agenda's ability to confront economic stagnation, the need for a reform movement on the level of 19th century progressives, and the path to overcoming political polarization.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall debate and discuss how the U.S. should have approached Israel's war against Hamas, the impacts of Israel-Palestine on the 2024 election, Biden vs. Trump's electoral prospects, Breaking Points's transition to Rumble, and more...

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall evaluate whether the campus protests sweeping schools across the country are effective, analyze the question of whether bipartisan policy failure in the Middle East is due to ignorance, and discuss why third parties and their candidates such as Ross Perot and RFK Jr. fail to translate their initial ballot success into long-term political change.