Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Campus Protests, the Cost of Middle East Ignorance, and the Roots of Third Party Political Failure

The Realignment

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

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🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall evaluate whether the campus protests sweeping schools across the country are effective, analyze the question of whether bipartisan policy failure in the Middle East is due to ignorance, and discuss why third parties and their candidates such as Ross Perot and RFK Jr. fail to translate their initial ballot success into long-term political change.

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0:00.0	Marshall and Saugger here welcome back to the weekend AMA Supercast edition of the
0:07.6	realignment. Here's the deal, Saugger and I are going to discuss things in a free
0:12.4	preview setting for a bit.
0:14.7	And then we will go to the Awald section of the episode where we take audience
0:20.3	Q&A.
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0:46.3	Okay, getting into the open section. Let's kind of start with the campus protest edition of the weekly news.
0:56.0	So obviously campus protests have taken over huge swaths of campuses, both elite and otherwise
1:02.0	across this country.
1:03.3	Saugur, do you have an opening?
1:05.7	There's a couple different ways we could talk about this.
1:08.0	But do you have like an opening thought
1:10.1	on the past two weeks event?
1:17.0	Mm. on the past two weeks event. Hmm, I don't know. I don't know if I have anything particularly profound.
1:20.0	Crystal did it get...
1:21.0	Crystal and I did get into a good debate which sparked a lot of criticism about where I said
1:27.9	it wasn't worth getting expelled for participating in these protests so if you want to sound off on that, you could.
1:35.0	I love that.
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