115 | Frank DiStefano: The Next Realignment and Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling + Extended Q&A

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube channel on realignments: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyI2l4jUJ-GqtbtMhCvsWzg Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment to explain why realignments are a regular feature of American politics, the need to move beyond 20th century debates between conservatives and liberals, and why the collapse of the current party system will lead to renewal and reform.

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0:00.0	Marshall and Saga here, welcome back to the Realignment.
0:03.2	We also now have a post-industrial global modern world with all kinds of new problems that
0:14.3	have nothing to do with an industrial economy, and to which the party's toolkits don't
0:20.0	have anything to respond to.
0:21.7	Because if you try to come up with, okay, what do we do with the rise of AI or the rise
0:26.3	of China?
0:27.3	All right, is the answer more new deal programs?
0:30.4	It doesn't make any sense.
0:32.1	Is the answer fight big government?
0:34.2	It doesn't make any sense.
0:36.0	The two parties have toolkits that are built to dealing with industrial problems that don't
0:40.6	have tools for the problems we now have.
0:44.5	And that ultimately is led to stagnation because we have two coal coalitions built around
0:51.7	ideologies meant to solve problems that no longer exist.
0:54.8	And we have new problems that need solutions that they don't have tools.
0:59.5	And if they try to create tools, it means breaking orthodoxy.
1:02.8	It means alienating their coalition.
1:04.8	It means doing something brand new.
1:14.8	Today is a special episode on a couple of different levels.
1:18.6	One, we are doing the extended Q&A.
1:21.8	We have a lot of questions across a variety of topics.
1:25.9	We wanted to take the chance to answer them for you all today.
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