If you're in the elite and the political class of the United States of America at a time when

wages are stagnating, life expectancies are declining, birth rights are crashing and opioid

addiction is rising, You did something wrong or you didn't do

something that you should have done but you're a bad shepherd you're a bad

politician you're supposed to be a political leader looking out at the health of the

body politic and it got worse under

your watch and you should be blamed for it. Are you trying to understand the principles that guide American politics?

So are we.

Welcome to the American Mind Podcast.

I'm your host Ben Judge.

Since this is our first episode, we thought we would go back to the basics.

What is the fundamental problem

politics must solve? What does this mean for governments in general? What does it

mean for America? Helping us work through those questions is Mike Anton. He is a senior fellow at the

Claremont Institute and lecturer at Hillsdale College's Kirby Center in Washington, D.C.

He is written for Pete Wilson, Rudy Giuliani, George W Bush,

and most recently he served in Donald Trump's

National Security Council as Deputy Assistant

for Strategic Communications.

But many of you know him from an essay he wrote for the Claremont review of books titled The Flight 93 election.

That essay became the basis for his new book after the Flight 93 election, the vote that saved America America and what we still have to lose.

What is his answer to the fundamental problem of politics?

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