Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

Something I am really looking forward to doing leading into the 2024 election and

beyond is looking at new political movements and ideas that are entering into the

landscape. It's pretty clear that after eight years of this Trump-plus era, we are due for new sets of ideas and

institutions, and the first of which I'm going to be catalogging in today is something called

the abundance agenda. Stephen Towers has been on the podcast before and I'm excited to share his new paper.

It's called the rise of the abundance faction. It really gets at this idea of the abundance agenda and how it can present a new opportunity

within the center to center left of the Democratic Party to offer something alternative to what we have now.

At a broader level, we also discuss the end point of

political moderation, why democracy reform efforts haven't worked and lots of other

great stuff too. This is part one of a longer-term conversation I'm willing to schedule during this summer so look forward to hearing what folks think we reference a lot of different really interesting papers in this episode to be sure to check the show notes.

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Stephen Talis, welcome back to the realignment.

Thanks for having to be back on.

So we're here to discuss a couple really interesting pieces.

You just published with your co-offer Rob Saldin the rise of the abundance faction,

which has to deal with the future of American politics, but I think it would be really important to set up this

conversation with just a quick diagnosis of our current political moment,

separate from how you think someone should respond to this political moment,

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