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The Realignment

Ep. 82: Avik Roy Makes the Case for a Centrist Realignment

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The Realignment

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

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Subscribe to The Realignment podcast’s new newsletter via https://therealignment.substack.com/ Avik Roy, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, joins The Realignment to discuss the state of the Republican Party and why free market conservatives and moderate Democrats should join together to form a new political movement.

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0:00.0

Saga and Marshall here welcome back to the realignment.

0:09.0

I think it's time for people in the Republican Party and the conservative movement to stop

0:14.3

making excuses. I just get so tired of the excuses. It's always somebody else's fault.

0:20.1

Oh, it's the media that doesn't give us a fair shake. Oh, it's the lefties who don't give us

0:23.7

a fair shake. Newsflash, the left is never going to give you a fair shake. The media is never

0:28.7

going to give you a fair shake. So if you're waiting for the moment in which we reach Valhalla and

0:34.3

the media gives you a fair shake, just stop paying attention to politics now. Just give up. Okay,

0:39.7

that's just never going to happen.

0:49.4

This week we have a very exciting guest for all of you that is Ovid Roy. Marshall is going to dig

0:53.8

into his background a little bit, but just a preface before we even get to that. This show,

0:58.0

when we talk about politics is about coalitions, right? We're looking at left politics. We're looking

1:03.0

at left populism versus center left. We're looking at right politics, right populist versus the

1:08.4

establishment. Well, our next guest actually has a more interesting theory, which is that the real

1:13.9

alliance that is going to be the future of American politics is the center right and the center

1:19.6

left. Now look, you know, you listen to some of the stuff I was saying back in January,

1:23.7

I would be like, yeah, you're out of your mind. But look, Joe Biden just won 80 million votes with

1:30.5

largely that exact program and appeal to suburban voters. So maybe it's not the craziest thing in the

1:36.8

world. Ovid leads the foundation for research on equal opportunity. And he's also been a serious

1:42.8

policy leader in Republican presidential campaigns during the last decade. After the election,

1:48.5

though, he put on a conference called agenda 2025, the basic idea of being articulating the

1:56.1

principles and the policies have actually undergird this left center right center coalition that

2:02.1

he thinks could be the future and could put forward the free enterprise and inclusion ideas.

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