358 | Henry Olsen: Trump vs. DeSantis and the Fight for the New Republican Party

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

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Henry Olsen, Washington Post columnist, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, joins The Realignment. Henry and Marshall discuss how the GOP of 2023 differs from its pre-Trump iteration, why the extent to which the GOP is a personal vehicle for Trump is the central question facing the right leading into 2024, whether Ron DeSantis is able to meet the moment, and where his "four factions" that compose the GOP's coalition stand.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.
0:08.0	Have a run, book it back to the show.
0:10.0	Quick reminder, tomorrow,
0:12.0	Saga and my latest Supercast exclusive episode we'll
0:16.0	re-discuss the issues of the day and answer
0:19.0	listener subscriber questions will be coming out
0:22.0	first in the morning. So if you've not subscribed already,
0:24.0	go to realignment.supercast.com.
0:27.0	There you will get access to the Q&A exclusive content
0:31.0	and be able to submit your own questions and all those other great things on to today's
0:35.0	episode. One of the big stories this week was the indictment hearing for Donald Trump in
0:41.0	New York City. So I decided to take a step back and ring on a great gas to
0:45.0	I've read and really learned from for a long time to discuss the current
0:49.0	2024 Republican primary and what it means through the broader future of
0:53.0	the conservative movement and the Republican party. Henry Olson is a
0:57.0	fellow at the ethics and public policy center and a columnist at the Washington
1:01.0	Post where he focuses on politics, populism, and the broader American conservative
1:05.0	movement. Obviously Henry has a point of view on the
1:09.0	2024 primary, but I think what he does a great job of in this
1:13.0	episode is he takes a step back from this personal perspective and provides
1:17.0	analysis of how the different factions of the right are coalescing or
1:21.0	not coalescing in favor of one candidate or the other. If you're looking for
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