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492 | Curt Mills: The Bull Case for President Biden's Reelection and the Future of the GOP Jul 16, 2024

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In 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.

RE: Something Interesting | Nat Eliason on Crypto Confidential - Winning and Losing Millions on the New Frontier of Finance Jul 11, 2024

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Note: This upcoming Sunday will feature a free Ask Me Anything episode focused on President Biden's 2024 campaign, the results of Thursday's presser, and the upcoming RNC. Submit your questions at The Realignment's email address or on Supercast. On today's episode, Nat Eliason, author of Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nat discuss the state of the crypto market from 2021 to 2024, crypto use cases, and the long-term bull case for blockchain-based tech and products.

491 | Jonathan Darman: Why Joe Biden Didn't Drop Out and the Lessons of 1968 Jul 09, 2024

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Vanity Fair - Jonathan Darman | What Biden Can Learn from LBJ's Decision to Drop Out in 1968

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Season 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.

490 | Steven Teles Part II: How to Enact the Abundance Agenda, the State of Universities, and Why Conservatives Are Avoiding Academia Jun 27, 2024

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The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (substack.com)

National Affairs: Beyond Academic Sectarianism

The Future Is Faction: The Future Is Faction | National Affairs

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Steven 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.

489 | Aaron Renn: The Sources of American Renewal, the Return of the Neoliberals, and Why Populists Can't Govern Jun 25, 2024

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Aaron Renn on the source of American policy renewal: https://twitter.com/aaron_renn/status/1772976770028904577

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Aaron 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.

Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Prepping for the Biden-Trump Presidential Debate, RFK Jr.'s Lack of Inclusion, and More... Jun 23, 2024

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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.

488: Gen. Frank McKenzie: High Command and War in the 21st Century - From the Killing of Soleimani to the Fall of Kabul Jun 20, 2024

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Gen. 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.

487: John Ganz: How the 1990s Broke America - Con Men, and Conspiracies, and a Failed Transition from the Reagan Years Jun 18, 2024

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John 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.

486 | Ruchir Sharma: What Went Wrong with Capitalism - Bailouts, Low Growth, Spiraling Debt, and the Case for Neoliberalism Jun 13, 2024

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Ruchir 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.

485 | Peter S. Goodman: How the World Ran Out of Everything - Inside the Global Supply Chain Jun 11, 2024

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Peter S. Goodman, Global Economics Correspondent for the New York Times and author of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain, returns to The Realignment. Peter and Marshall discuss the innerworkings of the global supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant vulnerability, whether the issues that caused the 2021 pre-Christmas crunch have been addressed, and how we can finally build a reliable and resilient supply chain in the future.

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