Marshall here. Welcome back to The Realignment.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Today's episode is actually one of my favorite,

in a long time I'm speaking with the Washington Post, Philip Bump,

but his new book, The Aftermath, The Last Days of the Baby Boom, and The Future of Power in America.

As I joke at the top, the book came out a few weeks ago, so I had enough time to actually

finish the book and ask a lot of deep questions about it, so I know folks have always been

interested in this conversation with Bebeau Bowers, millennials, Gen Z, where it is the long,

off forgotten Gen X cohort thing to this. So what's a great stuff? Take aways for Democrats,

for Republicans and everyone is interested in where this country is going. Of course, I should note

that this is a great opportunity for you to ask follow up supercast questions. So if you'd like

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Huge thank you to Lincoln Network Supporting, our work. Hope you all enjoy this conversation.

Philip Bump, welcome to the reallignment. Thank you very much. Happy to be here.

Best thing about booking and author a little after the release of the book is I actually have time

to read the book instead of pretending that I'm going to complete it three days before

obligation date, which is the actual truth of how this Norway works. But no, actually write the book

so I can ask you real questions based off of it and just say upfront that I loved it. I think it's

so useful. Here's my big question to start with. How much of our conception of what America is,

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