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Realignment Discussion & Ask Me Anything: Saagar and Marshall on Why Realignment Ideas Don't Spread, the Iraq War Anniversary, and More...(Supercast Exclusive)

The Realignment

The Realignment

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

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Saagar and Marshall discuss The Realignment's interview with David McCormick, the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, and take listener questions on everything from Trump's 2024 chances to how one builds policy "consensus" around big issues.

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the realignment discussion slash ask me anything.

0:07.0

You all know how this works. If you are a subscriber to our supercast, the primary way we pay

0:12.2

the bills here, you can get and submit questions that we will answer on episodes like this every

0:17.5

two weeks or so. We also include a time of discussion up front to give people who are

0:21.8

not subscribers yet. A bit of the more free flowing vibe we bring here and all those

0:26.3

great things. So getting into it, you can subscribe at realignment dot supercast dot com to get

0:32.7

the rest of this conversation or click the link at the top of the show notes. So two things

0:37.2

I wanted to get your thoughts on Saga in the free section. One of which I'm just I know

0:41.5

you'll be interested to talk about this privately. So I did it interview with David McCormick

0:46.4

last week. So David McCormick was the 2022 was one of the 2022 Republican primary candidates

0:53.4

in the state of Pennsylvania. He was CEO of Bridgewater. He was a undersecretary in the

0:59.0

George W. Bush administration as a PhD, Pierre Trooper, all those big things. He's also

1:03.3

married to Dean Powell, who was a big person in the Trump administration. He's thinking

1:09.1

of running for Senate and Pennsylvania again in 2024. But he's down in the polls against

1:16.4

Doug Masteryano because the Pennsylvania Republican party just enjoys going through that

1:20.8

OSGA all over again. But there was a bit of pushback that I had a reaction to about

1:25.9

love to hear perspective on. So here was the pushback. So I'm going to basically was like,

1:29.8

man, yawn. You should have joyous crime. You should have orange cast. You should have

1:37.7

more of these like new right economic populists on rather than the David McCormick's of the

1:43.3

world who would say things like I'm looking to what Milton Friedman thinks about the world.

1:48.5

And then giving like very generic principle of Republican positions. And my response

1:52.9

is on two levels. So response number one is that a, I could the end of the day, like the

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