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When you look at what Republicans do when they come to office, since the mid 1990s, the first thing they do is aggressively pursue these policies that are designed to steer as many resources to the wealthy as possible.

And they do that into the hurricane wind of popular opposition.

Hello and welcome to Gazelclan Show on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm back from vacation. I'm rested, tan, ready. I've got a great episode here today.

So I've been a big fan of Jacob Hacker and Paul Pearson because of course I'm the kind of person who's like, I'm a big fan of these two political scientists.

Jacob Hacker is at Yale, Paul Pearson is at Berkeley, and they've been a duo for two decades now writing really important books about the institutional structure of American politics, how social welfare policies work, how they entrench themselves.

But what recently what has happened to the Republican Party? Why does it act the way it does? And in particular, they begin with what should be from the perspective of political science, a conundrum.

How does the Republican Party survive consistently pursuing extraordinarily unpopular policies and in particular extraordinarily unpopular economic policies?

And they've been working on this question for a long time, but like everyone there re-evaluating parts of it in the Trump era.

But at the core of their explanation is inequality. And this is something that I wrestle with, not because I don't think inequality is a crucial and critical part of what is happening in American politics now.

But because the question of which part it is playing, whether it is polarizing things or depolarizing them, pushing their Republican Party to a breaking point or making it stronger by giving it so much money to work with, it's just hard.

The literature is contradictory, it's very hard to find the causal story. It's something that I will occasionally make a run at and then step back a little bit confused.

But they have been working on this very hard. And so the new book let them eat tweets, how the right rules in an age of extreme inequality is a pretty profound effort to answer this question.

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