Martian Sagar here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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anything questions but actually it's got a really good question on Instagram which we haven't

answered in forever. And the person says, Hey Marshall, love the show. What actually is

a realignment? You guys haven't actually ever talked about that in a while and maybe I

missed it. So, well, no, no, no, he's true though. Like we haven't actually said we've

talked about the vibe and the direction. But I just kind of wanted to kick this off by

discussing that and just all start by just reading the quick Wikipedia answer because it's

actually really useful. The political realignment in academic fields of political science and

political history is a set of sharp changes in party ideology issues, party leaders, regional

and demographic bases of power of political parties and the structure or rules of the

political system such as voter eligibility or financing. They can take one to four years

that being a realignment or they can take five to 10 to 15 to 20 years. Now we're going

to be talking about Liz Cheney's loss in her GOP primary in Wyoming. We're going to

mention George P Bush, that is Jeb Bush's son's loss in his Texas attorney general primary

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