What we've had since the mid-1990s is two minority parties. The parties are stuck.

They're stuck each defining itself against the other. They're having a lot of trouble

saying to the country, this is our vision of the future and it

should be yours too it's not what they're saying to the country they're saying to the

country don't vote for those other guys they would push us over the abyss and the results for politics have been

very bad they've they've meant that both parties have kind of forgotten how to

govern From time to time over the next few months we'll be returning to further analysis of the

2022 midterm elections and what they tell us about the choices for both national parties heading

into the 2024 presidential primaries.

But rather than getting bogged down in a post-mortem of the political tactics of

2022, I wanted to check in with Yoval Levin, who has been thinking about the longer-term trends that were

revealed or confirmed by these most recent elections.

And how they should inform how we select our next president. You've all been on this

podcast before and he believes that our politics are now defined by what

political analyst Ron Brownstein has called double negative elections, meaning the public is

rejecting both Biden Democrats and Trump Republicans. These are fault lines

that have been hardening throughout this century and according to Yuval it's completely ahistorical.

This is new for us at least in modern times.

Yval currently wears three hats at the American Enterprise Institute. He's the director of Social Cultural and Constitutional Studies.

He's the editor-in-chief of National Affairs, a quarterly journal of essays

about domestic policy, political economy, and political

thought, which I highly recommend, I'm a subscriber, and he's the author of numerous books

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