Hello everybody, this is Saga and Jedi and Marshall Kasslov, Media Fellows at Hudson Institute

in Washington, D.C. We're excited to announce the launch of the realignment.

The realignment is podcast that challenges the way America approaches politics and policy.

We're living in a time where conventional wisdom has been upend. You have the unexpected

election of Donald Trump, populist revolts across Europe, and the arrival of an aggressive

and unapologetic China.

The right is starting to ask new questions about its approach to the free market. Americans

are beginning to question the role technology plays in their daily lives. Meanwhile, lawmakers

face new data privacy and national security challenges. All of this is playing out while

the social fabric of the country is fraying and politics continues to further divide us.

We're going to sit down with serious thought leaders who are earnestly seeking answers

to the questions of what is going on and what does America's future look like.

Each week, Marshall and I will take a deep dive into the issues at the heart of the real

ignment with guests who help us answer some questions. How did we get here? What are the

implications and what's next? To make sure you don't miss anything, subscribe to the

realignment on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You can also

find a streaming on Hudson Institute's YouTube channel.

We're kicking things off this Thursday, August 1st, with author J.E. Vance, we caught up

with at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington.

I think that we should consider China as our nation should have considered Nazi Germany

in the mid-1930s. Only we should recognize that it's more dangerous because it's larger

and it's more ambitious. I think that Hitler wanted to rule Europe. I think that China

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