Ronald Brownstein: After 2020, What’s Next in Our Politics?

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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What did we learn about the American electorate and the state of our politics from the elections of 2020? What do the results tell us about partisanship, the divisions between red and blue America, and the possibilities for heightened polarization or compromise going forward? To consider these questions, we are joined by Senior Editor at The Atlantic Ronald Brownstein. When Brownstein last joined us after the 2018 midterms, he predicted a Biden-Harris ticket in 2020. In this Conversation, he and Bill Kristol analyze the results of 2020 and consider possible paths forward for each party, and our politics in general, over the course of the Biden presidency. This is must-see Conversation for those interested in post-election analysis that speaks to the fundamental political challenges the country faces today and in the years ahead.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome back to conversations. I'm Bill Crystal. Very pleased to be joined today, Sunday, November, what is an 8th, right after the 20th election.
0:25.0	By my friend Ron Brownstein,
0:28.0	one of a really stellar analysts of not just elections,
0:31.0	but American politics more broadly, author of several books which I highly recommend, senior editor at The Atlantic, a senior analyst on CNN, and we were just talking before we came on air here,
0:43.5	author of forthcoming book, which you've just
0:45.4	at the galleys of, is that right?
0:46.4	Or are there?
0:47.4	I wish, almost.
0:48.4	A coming come.
0:49.4	What's the book I want to tell people?
0:50.5	It's called, it's called Rock Me on the Water, and it's a history of politics and culture in early 1970s, LA, which I argue is the moment when the 60s critique of American life was cemented into pop culture and it happened in television
1:05.6	movies and music basically here in a short time within a few blocks of each other.
1:11.8	Wow that would be a good discussion that will be slightly different from our election
1:15.8	focused analysis of...
1:17.8	Although similar in the sense of the generational change was reflected in the culture
1:22.6	before it was in the politics,
1:23.8	which I think is what we're living through now.
1:25.3	And that was kind of what inspired me
1:27.3	to some ways to do that, to do that book,
1:29.7	to tackle that subject.
1:31.4	That sounds great.
1:32.4	Okay, so much to talk about one when you were on
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