Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/.REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentFRANK'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankDiStefanoEmail us at: realignmentpod@gmail.comFrank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment's weekly discussion episode to unpack what causes political parties to realign, the debate over what America's political problems/challenges, whether existing parties should be reformed with new ideas, figures, and coalitions, and the show's long-running debate over third/new political parties.