What is an Ideology?

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this supporter show, Trey and Justin start a new topic: ideologies. The pair dive into the definition of political ideologies, historical context, and the complexities that arise from the interplay between empirical observations and abstract ideas. They discuss the significance of understanding the distinction between 'is' and 'ought' in political science, the relationship between ideologies and political parties, and the philosophical foundations that shape ideological beliefs. The conversation also touches on how different ideologies divide within themselves. Join Trey and Justin as they help listeners understand and clarify their own political beliefs and misconceptions about contemporary ideologies! The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support atpatreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5	Welcome to the politics guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:46.0	I'm Trey Orndorff, a political scientist, Oklahoma Christian University.
0:49.1	And I'm joined by Justin Holmes, a professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa. Justin,
0:56.0	welcome to the Midweek Show. Hey, Trey, it's good talking to you. Well, we've got some excitingness
1:01.9	that we're launching today, or I hope it's excitingness to listeners at least. We'll find out we are
1:07.1	looking for, I'm listening to I'm always excited. That's my problem is like politics stuff. And I just want to entertain myself, you know, ultimately. So I... I'm always excited. That's my problem. It's like politics stuff.
1:11.5	And I just want to entertain myself, you know, ultimately. So I know I'm going to be entertained by this. Well, you know, students will oftentimes ask me, like, why are you in such a good mood most of the time? Like, sometimes you're in your pain. You've got this stuff going on. It's like, I'm fulfilling my life purpose. I got to think about some really cool things every day with some really cool people.
1:29.8	And I love that.
1:30.8	And so that's what we're going to be doing here as well, right? And so Justin and I are going to begin, again, we're looking for your feedback. Let us know what you think about this. But we're going to begin thinking about contemporary political ideologies.
1:46.7	And we're going to look at them in a broad way. And we're going to start by thinking about what
1:51.4	ideologies are. That's what's going to be today. And then we're going to kind of go through some of the
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