Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Hey everyone welcome back to the show. It's been a big week for us. We've officially launched our subscriber

exclusive content. So Monday released a bonus interview with previous guest Peter Bergen about President Trump's foreign policy

And yesterday, Saga and I released an extended AMA session where subscribers asked us questions

and we basically treated it like a bonus discussion episode that I know people like so much. So if you

want to actually not only support the show, but also get this bonus exclusive content go to

reallignment.supercast.com, click the subscribe link in the description for this podcast,

or you can click on the teaser episodes that we released on Wednesday and Monday to get a preview

and go to the links there. By the way, tomorrow's Friday, so you'll also want to go check out our

sub-stack, which is going out that day as well. You could find that in the show notes on to today's

episode. My favorite genre of book right now is the we all know something's wrong. What exactly

happened in this country a bit? Peter Zayn's episode on Tuesday gave one answer, which is basically

that globalization is breaking down. Populations are declining and growth is slowing down, which means

you have everything from the war in Ukraine to storing energy prices to the supply chain crisis

that comes out of all of that. Today's book is another type of answer. It really focuses on the year

2000 as this big turning point in our politics and culture. And by looking at different stories like

the dot com bubble, the 2000 election, aka the question of our bush vigor, are they really that

different? Are the two parties really just sort of the same thing in a different set of clothing?

And then focusing obviously then on reform party candidates like Pat Buchanan and President

Trump's nascent campaign at the time or Ralph Nader. So that brings to mind the discussion of

third parties today. And just the broader issue of a contested election that features the Supreme

Court. So many different storylines that really matter today are going to play into this story here.

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