502 | Rogé Karma: The End of Reaganomics, the Rise and Fall of Bidenomics, and Why It's Time to Build Again in America

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Rogé Karma, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and former Senior Editor of the Ezra Klein Show, joins The Realignment. Rogé and Marshall discuss how the new bipartisan consensus in favor of tariffs on Chinese goods opens a new era in economic policy, why ideas "Neoliberalism" and the "New Washington Consensus" actually matter (despite how wonky and academic they sound, what the lack of political reward for pursuing popular policy ideas like reducing the price of prescription drugs means, the post-neoliberal right and lefts struggles to build popular political movements, and why the "Abundance Agenda" resonates with an America trying to learn how to build again.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.
0:05.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Today's episode is all about the intersection of economics, public policy, and politics.
0:15.5	My guest is the Atlantic's Rojay Karma.
0:18.0	Ro'erjay covers the broad economic policy beat and he was previously a senior editor at the Ezra Klein show.
0:24.4	In today's conversation, we cover everything from why and how the Biodinomics economic agenda
0:29.8	didn't meet the political moment.
0:31.5	Yet at the same time, Kala Harris embraced the underlying principles
0:35.2	behind the economic philosophy during her DNC acceptance speech
0:38.9	last week.
0:39.9	We also cover why, if anything, there is a case to be made, the public policy and political programs
0:45.9	still matter when voters care most of all about the issue of inflation, prices, and the broader
0:52.3	set of issues everyone's experienced post-COVID.
0:55.2	We of course also discuss the nature of how the left right have struggled to put together programs
1:01.5	that can meet the post-2016 political moment.
1:04.0	Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation,
1:07.0	supporting the work of this podcast,
1:09.0	and I hope you all enjoy the conversation.
1:11.0	We're OJ. the conversation. Roja, Karma, welcome to the realignment.
1:17.0	Thanks so much for having me, Marshall.
1:19.0	So you and I've had plenty of conversations off of a podcast. I've read all of your recent pieces,
1:25.1	but because we're going to very explicitly talk about a bunch of your work, I would love for you just to define for
1:30.0	everyone what your beat is at the Atlantic.
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