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.
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."
Nov 19, 2024
521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025
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.
Nov 14, 2024
520 | Reihan Salam: How Republicans Built a Grand New Party During the Trump Era
Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment. Reihan and Marshall discuss the GOP's transformation from the 200s George W. Bush presidency to Trump's 2024 victory, the party's gains with working-class voters, racial minorities, and men, how his and Ross Douthat's writing about the "Party of Sam's Club" presaged the 20-year transformation of conservatism, and the fractured politics of America's urban regions.
Nov 12, 2024
519 | Rep. Ro Khanna: Rebuilding the Democratic Party After Trump's 2024 Victory
Representative Ro Khanna returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ro discuss his vision for the post-Biden Democratic Party, how his plans to rebuild America's manufacturing base can actually move voters, what the government can learn from the public sector when it comes to building ambitious projects, podcasting, and the realignment of Latino voters and young men away from Democrats.
Nov 10, 2024
Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff Discussion & AMA: How Will a Second Trump Presidency Go? - Free Edition
In the latest edition of Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloffs discussion and AMA series, they discuss the implications of Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris, whether Trump will misinterpret his mandate, immigration policy and the mass-deportation plan, why the left can't build a Joe Rogan equivalent, and more...
Nov 08, 2024
517 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: 2024 Election Autopsy Part I - The Democrats
In the latest edition of Marshall and Steve Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University discussion series, they discuss reasons behind Kamala Harris's loss to Donald Trump, the debate over whether Kamala should have gone on the Joe Rogan Experience, whether 2010s-2022 "wokeness" fatally wounded Democrats, what a successful 2028 nominee needs to learn from 2024, and of course, a shoutout to the Abundance Agenda.
Nov 07, 2024
We're All in the Realignment Know - Reflections on Trump's 2024 Election Victory
In today's episode, Marshall reacts to Donald Trump's 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris. He discusses the arrival of the long-forecasted racial realignment, Joe Rogan's impact on the race, how Joe Biden and previous presidents misread their post-election mandates, why abortion wasn't the 2024 election's decisive issues, the future of America's foreign policy, and more...
Nov 05, 2024
Horns of a Dilemma: Danielle Pletka - What the 2024 Election Means for America's Foreign Policy
In a cross-over with Marshall's UT-Austin Clements Center for National Security/Texas National Security Review podcast, Horns of a Dilemma, AEI's Danielle Pletka and Marshall discuss the impact of the 2024 election on America's foreign policy. They discuss the evolution of America's foreign policy on the right and left since the Obama presidency, the state of the Middle East, the War in Ukraine, and what medium-term opportunities the U.S. can seize in the 2020s.
Nov 05, 2024
516 | Marshall Kosloff & Saagar Enjeti: The Realignment's 2024 Election Day Special
In a special edition of The Realignment podcast, Marshall and Saagar discuss today's ongoing presidential election. They discuss whether the issue of "character" should determine one's vote, what the realignment's framework got right (and wrong), and the prospects for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on election night.
Oct 29, 2024
515 | Timothy Shenk: Has the Left Lost the Realignment?
Timothy Shenk, GWU Professor and author of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Timothy discuss how culture has replaced economics as the electorate's dividing line, the multiple paths forward for Democrats after they began to lose working-class voters in the 1980s, why political consultants are more important than one would think, and whether the left or right will come out ahead as the American political system realigns.
Nov 21 | 00:57:29
522 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats Shouldn't Offer Voters Diet Coke Populism When They Order Coca-Cola
Nov 19 | 00:55:43
521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025
Nov 14 | 01:19:43
520 | Reihan Salam: How Republicans Built a Grand New Party During the Trump Era
Nov 12 | 00:40:22
519 | Rep. Ro Khanna: Rebuilding the Democratic Party After Trump's 2024 Victory
Nov 10 | 00:46:03
Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff Discussion & AMA: How Will a Second Trump Presidency Go? - Free Edition
Nov 08 | 00:56:17
517 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: 2024 Election Autopsy Part I - The Democrats
Nov 07 | 00:34:35
We're All in the Realignment Know - Reflections on Trump's 2024 Election Victory
Nov 05 | 00:37:26
Horns of a Dilemma: Danielle Pletka - What the 2024 Election Means for America's Foreign Policy
Nov 05 | 00:58:39
516 | Marshall Kosloff & Saagar Enjeti: The Realignment's 2024 Election Day Special
Oct 29 | 00:57:30
515 | Timothy Shenk: Has the Left Lost the Realignment?
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