Marshal Musagger here, welcome back to The Realignment.

The Realignment is a podcast that explores the dramatic political

realignment facing the United States.

Conventional wisdom has been upended, especially with the unexpected election of President

Trump, populist revolts across Europe, and the arrival of an aggressive and unapologetic

China.

We're living in a time of new challenges to the way America and our leaders approach policy.

All this is playing out while the social fabric of our country phrase and our politics

continue to further divide us.

This podcast is focused on cutting through the noise and unpacking the issues at the

heart of this realignment, politicians, thought leaders, journalists, and more.

This week we sat down with Clon Kitchen.

He leads the tech policy team over the Heritage Foundation.

I think tech is the policy area where the ideas that we focus on this podcast are best

in our sect.

Because you have and you hear this in our conversation, national security, we're talking

about Huawei and China and tech talk.

We're talking about economics.

We're talking about whether when we're looking at these companies have so much power, whether

we compare them to previous forms of business that we dominated in the 20th century.

And then finally, you just have science.

You have the debate about whether or not these companies are making innovations that benefit

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