The Realignment

The Realignment

The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.

  • 49 minutes 5 seconds
    531 | Saagar Enjeti: The Trump Vibe Shift Hits Washington

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    Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss the ways that President Trump's second term could differ from his first, where a second Trump presidency could go right or wrong, and what longstanding political questions were settled in the 2024 election.

    21 January 2025, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    530 | Felicia Wong: What Joe Biden's Legacy Means for the Future of American Politics

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    Felicia Wong, the outgoing president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Felicia discuss what the Biden presidency means for the left, where the conversation on "post-neoliberalism" stands after Donald Trump's 2024 victory, the need for new communication strategies in the emerging policy environment, how left and right populism will compete for working class voters, and the new politics of immigration.

    16 January 2025, 9:00 am
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    529 | Senator Chris Murphy: Can Economic Populism Win the Fight for the Working Class?

    Democrats and Republicans Race to Embrace Populism - The Atlantic

    Chris Murphy: America Has Problems That the Free Market Can't Solve - The Atlantic

    Opinion | The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses - The New York Times

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    Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy joins The Realignment. Marshall and Senator Murphy discuss why the 2028 election could come down to which party presents the stronger economic populist case, why the Republican shift towards populism could be undermined by the contradictions of governance, the need for Democrats to speak to voters who disagree on social issues, and the broader crisis of meaning, spirituality, and loneliness in America and its roots in the neoliberal consensus. 

    14 January 2025, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    528 | Jennifer Pahlka & Andrew Greenway: The State Capacity Agenda for 2025

    The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025: The how we need now: a capacity agenda for 2025 - Niskanen Center

    Jennifer Pahlka Substack: Eating Policy | Jennifer Pahlka | Substack

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    Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway, co-authors of the Niskanen Center's The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025, join The Realignment. Marshall, Jennifer, and Andrew discuss why state capacity is one of the most important ideas of 2025, the roots of America's inability to build U.S. navy ships on time, 17-year approval processes for "fast-tracked" power projects, and the lack of delivery of the Biden administration's legislative agenda in state capacity failure, and the reforms that left, right, and center should implements moving forward.

    9 January 2025, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    527 | Julius Krein: The Blueprint for an American Manufacturing Renaissance

    New American Industrial Alliance: Our Mission | NAIA

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    Julius Krein, Founder and Editor of American Affairs and Chairman of the New American Industrial Alliance, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Julius discuss the founding of NAIA and its mission to spur a techno-industrial revolution, manufacturing's dominance of American politics since 2016, the pros and cons of Biden-era policies like the IRA and CHIPS Act legislation, Trump's focus on deregulation, trade, and capital deployment, the results of China's decade of industrial policy, and the broader state of American politics after the 2024 election.

    7 January 2025, 9:00 am
  • 54 minutes 50 seconds
    526 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: Abundance and Its Enemies

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     In the latest edition of Marshall and Steve Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University discussion series, they wrap the series for 2024, revisit The New Republic's tradition of offering annual recriminations during the holiday season, and discuss the new series of articles critiquing the abundance agenda.

    12 December 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 55 minutes 21 seconds
    525 | Noah Smith: The Trends That Will Define American Politics in 2025

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    Noahpinion Substack: Noahpinion | Noah Smith | Substack

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    10 December 2024, 9:00 am
  • 52 minutes 47 seconds
    524 | Jason Willick: Why the Resistance Failed to Stop Trump

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    Jason Willick, opinion columnist at The Washington Post, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jason discuss California's past and future as the chief opposition state to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom's futures, why the legal approach to opposing Trump failed, and where the Resistance to Trump goes from here. 

    3 December 2024, 1:10 pm
  • 49 minutes 38 seconds
    523 | Misha Chellam: What's Next for the Abundance Agenda?

    Abundance Network: Abundance Network

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    Misha Chellam, Co-Founder of the Abundance Network, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Misha discuss the state of the Abundance movement, Abundance Network's efforts to organize in states like California, the need to move Abundance conversations beyond coastal blue states towards red states that actually build, and how Realignment listeners can get involved at the local and state level. 

     

     

    26 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 57 minutes 29 seconds
    522 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats Shouldn't Offer Voters Diet Coke Populism When They Order Coca-Cola

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    Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the dangers of offering "Diet Coke" populism when voters are clearly ordering "Coke," how politicians should approach independent media and podcasts as cable news declines, what a building and growth centric agenda looks like, the need to address the debt/deficit, and the debate over "wokeness."

    21 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 55 minutes 43 seconds
    521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025

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    Dr. Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and author of Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss why Heritage's Project 2025 plan proved so controversial during the 2024 campaign, the case for radically transforming Washington, the exact nature of Donald Trump electoral mandate, the case against the Department of Education, and the state of the conservative movement during and after Trump.

    19 November 2024, 9:00 am
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