Hello there. I hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day weekend that we are uploading right now on on actual, on the actual Memorial Day or the day that we are honoring those we've lost in service to this country on Memorial Day.

There's always this debate.

You don't celebrate Memorial Day.

You honor Memorial Day.

I'm not going to get into the nuances of language here.

I think sometimes social media gets up in arms over that.

I have a fascinating guest today, Roy Tashira.

He is one half of the authorship of a book that had you read it before November

2024, you would have known in advance exactly how Kamala Harris was going to lose his presidential race.

Roy Tashira is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and along with John Judas,

he wrote a book that came out in the, in I believe, the fall of 23, spring of 24,

with the title, where of all the Democrats gone?

And essentially, every trend line that came to fruition in November of 2024, he had already

identified in this book. And as I said, and many of you know this, I've used this book among three

or four others as a teaching text for a class that I teach on behalf of USC called How Washington

Works. And as one of my students wrote, boy, I wish I had read this book before the election and I wouldn't have been so surprised by the result. The point is it's an excellent book. Definitely worth your time if you're trying to figure out what's going on inside the two parties. And frankly, is the two-party

system going to be able to hold up? And if we're stuck here with the two-party system, what are

the Democrats going to do to respond to what we've seen on the right? And I do think when you listen

to the conversation that Roy Tashir does provide a path for Democrats to become a majority party again and a majority governing party again.

But they've got a lot of work to do. And I think you will hear in the tone of the conversation that we have.

We're both a little bit skeptical that the Democrats have lost enough. And I think that's the real question.

Have they lost enough to make the changes necessary to become a majority party again? Right. In 1988, Democrats lost the presidential race with George H.W. Bush getting over 400 electoral votes. It was a race that they were supposed to win. It really suddenly made the party

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