Karl Rove on our new (or not so new) political dysfunction

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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One day we’re talking about the 2024 presidential election being a re-match of the 2020 election. The next day we’re watching the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives being defenestrated through a historic vote OUT of the Speakership. What is going on here? Is it a new level of crazy, or not that new at all? Karl Rove puts this period of political dysfunction in historical context. Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush and White House Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. He was architect of both of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, and the 2002 midterm election strategy for the Republicans. He is the author "The Triumph of William McKinley '' and also "Courage and Consequence". He writes a weekly column for The Wall Street Journal. Karl Rove's books: "The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters" -- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-triumph-of-william-mckinley-karl-rove/1122221784 "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight" Article discussed in this episode: "America Is Often a Nation Divided" -- https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-often-a-nation-divided-politics-election-gop-voters-debate-unrest-9100042a --https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/courage-and-consequence-karl-rove/1103176826

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0:00.0	We have the two most unpopular candidates for president on the Republican and Democratic side as front
0:05.1	runners that we've ever had.
0:07.3	And that's a fact.
0:08.3	Just go back and look at the fave unfaves of every candidate going back to the 1930s and
0:12.4	no pair of candidates is in
0:13.8	a bad shape as these two guys are and that that's unsustainable something's
0:18.0	going to happen on one side or the other whatever party figures out that a new face
0:22.4	will give them a better shot at taking or holding the White House is going to be the party that does have a better chance at taking or winning the White House. So here we are talking about the possibility, the probability of the 2024 presidential
0:47.0	election being a rematch of the 2020 election. Biden versus Trump.
0:54.8	Seems kind of crazy.
0:56.8	Although crazier than watching the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first
1:01.2	time in history voted out of the job by a process catalyzed by only
1:06.2	a handful of members of the Speaker's own party.
1:10.0	What is going on here?
1:11.4	At times it feels like things are really unraveling.
1:14.4	Coming apart at the seams, getting crazier and crazier. I hope at times at some point will be at peak crazy.
1:21.3	Although if you look at history, maybe it's not that crazy at all. In fact, maybe
1:26.6	this kind of political volatility, which seems so unusual, if not scary at times, was actually the norm for most of US history and we've just
1:36.4	had this aberration over the last three or four decades where it was relatively calm and now we're
1:42.0	reverting back to what it was like
1:43.5	before the three or four decades of calm. I started to think more and more about
1:48.4	this because I read a very insightful piece by Carl Rove in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago, where he goes
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