Hello and welcome to something's off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I regret nothing.

I'm an avowed political orphan.

I don't belong on red team or blue team for truly zealous

partisans that elephant or donkey stamp of approval is very important but

those labels are fairly meaningless to me for example I am a big fan of Justin Amash, who is a

Republican. That guy totally invited to my birthday party. But I also think Roy

Moore, who's a Republican, is the worst Senate candidate of my entire lifetime.

He is invited to my fake birthday across town at the place with a bad music open mic.

I used to be a Blue Dog Democrat back before we all got hunted down and

slaughtered in the Clone Wars and I still overlap with a lot of moderate and

centrist Democrats, but by that same token I get turned off by progressive activists

who fetishize identity politics or want to pull

socialism out of history's septic tank.

Those people can all go hang out at my fake birthday over in the asphalt district, while Justin Amash and the unrelated

moderates helped me pen a tail on a donkey.

We talk about American politics like there are two teams, but in reality there's any number of

teams, let's say nine or ten teams.

And they're constantly reorganizing into different constellations.

There's Neocon, and Blue Dogs, and Libertarian's,

and Environmentalists, all those different subgroups.

There's an app saying I stumbled on to a few years ago.

Europeans have elections and then they have coalitions. Americans have coalitions and

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