The Republican Party couldn't even muster a platform for the 2020 election.

So it seems pretty far fetched that it could come up with any kind of serious autopsy to

diagnose the causes of its defeat and the madness that came after.

Looks like we're going to have to do it for them.

Welcome to The Hangover.

I'm Chris Steyerwalt and I'll be your host for this limited run podcast from the dispatch

and dispatch media.

Our aim is to explain what went wrong for the GOP and how it got that way.

In a series of interviews with key figures and top analysts, I'm going to not just dissac

why Republicans lost in 2020, but we're going to fit it into a larger historical context

that also relates to what happens from here.

It was just four years between Donald Trump taking the oath of office at the Capitol and

the moment when an angry mob of his supporters besieged it.

That was the shortest span in almost 70 years for either party to gain total control in

Washington and then give it all away.

At the 2016 boom and the 2020 bust were both substantially caused by the experience of

the party's last trip into the wilderness following its 2008 defeat.

For every episode, a notable guest will join me to examine a key part of the Republican

coalition, the traditional pro-business establishment, the populists, white working class voters,

evangelical Christians, the right of center media.

We'll talk about political demography.

We'll talk about the consultant class, all of it.

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