244 | Michael Kazin: The Future of the Left in a Realigning America

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

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Michael Kazin, Georgetown professor and author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, and The Populist Persuasion: An American History, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of the Democratic Party, how economics can trump culture wars, how to build a majority coalition in a divided America, and the long-running battle between liberals and progressives.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.
0:08.6	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Quick note that we will kick off all episodes with
0:12.8	moving forward. This expanded coverage, a GA 3 to 4 episodes, a week, especially with the
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0:52.3	we're doing in our plans, you can go check our sub-stack, which is also linked in the show notes
0:56.9	as well. On to today's actual episode. I'm speaking with Michael Kaisen of Georgetown University.
1:03.6	He's the author of a couple books that are really relevant to the show. Recently, he released
1:08.1	what it took to win an history of the Democratic Party. He's previously written at the
1:12.3	populist persuasion and American history and also relevance to folks, American dreamers,
1:17.6	how the left changed the nation. This episode is a follow-up to our conversation with Matthew
1:23.1	Katenetti a few weeks ago. His book was titled The Right, the Hundred Year War for the Future
1:28.3	of Conservatism. So this episode is basically looking at these realignment issues through the lens
1:32.6	of the left in the Democratic Party in contrast to Katenetti's episode on The Right. So listen to
1:38.0	these two back to back. Listen to the gather. I hope you really understand how things were going.
1:41.6	All I'd said, you should thank you for linking that for supporting our work. I hope you enjoy this episode.
2:00.8	Michael Kaisen, welcome to the realignment. We're going to start this episode off with something
2:07.5	our left-lining audience has demanded of me. The proper definition and uses of terms like liberal
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