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180 | The Realignment Conference Part II: Centralization vs. Decentralization and the Future of Populism

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The Realignment

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

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. The James Madison Institute’s Andrea O’Sullivan and Wired’s Gilad Edelman on the tensions between centralization and decentralization will define tech and politics. American Affairs’s Julius Krein, American Compass’s Wells King, and the Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond and the new right, populism, and the debate over neoliberalism. Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit The Realignment’s Bookshop to support the show: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:08.6

Hope everyone had a really great Thanksgiving break.

0:11.5

Saga and I certainly did. I rang in my first ever Thanksgiving in New York City,

0:15.9

Olivia, Gorda, or Dog, and I had a really great time.

0:18.9

Saga got to go to Costa Rica, so I think everyone got a

0:22.0

well-deserved break from everything we'll be doing the next few months to really, really pump

0:26.9

to do. So in terms of programming this week, we have a new episode coming on Thursday,

0:31.6

but for today, we obviously were not taping at the end of Thanksgiving, so we're going to publish

0:36.9

the second half of our Realignment conference. These were the panels. So our first panel

0:42.0

saw about the debate over centralization and decentralization. This is about how technology

0:47.6

and new industries, new technologies, and actually politics are going to be affected by this debate

0:52.7

that we're seeing ever from Twitter to actual companies themselves. This hits a bit at the

0:57.5

web for your conversation we're having, and it gets to a bigger debate about censorship and

1:01.7

different forms of moderation that everyone is really, really interested in. The second part is a

1:06.0

really expansive conversation around the future of populism, what the show got right when we came

1:11.6

in at the start, and what this means for the future. So this is bringing in Sam Hammond of the

1:16.2

Nascannon Center, Julius Crine, Realignment fan favorite editor of American Affairs magazine,

1:21.2

has been on before we did a really great episode of them immediately after the election.

1:25.4

And then finally, we also have Wells King of American Compass, which is Orrin Cass's policy

1:30.5

organization, Jordanings Wells. So lots and lots and lots of great stuff. We'll be back

1:34.5

over the new episodes on Thursday, but for those of you that missed out on the conference,

1:37.7

this is a really good opportunity to talk about things that we are super interested in, and we think

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