Why Republicans and Democrats Think Differently - Featuring: Dr. Matt Grossmann
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Republicans and Democrats don't just have different goals and platforms, they literally think and organize differently. Dr. Matt Grossmann joins Heaton to discuss his book, "Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats."
Season 2, Ep 15
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| 0:00.0 | Coming to you from Los Angeles, California, the capital of Adobe-laden parking lots, it's the political orphanage, an amusing space |
| 0:16.8 | in which to contemplate nuance. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and why yes, I have been doing push-ups thanks for noticing have |
| 0:25.6 | you ever been hanging out with a couple of Democrat and Republican friends and |
| 0:29.0 | they're just arguing past each other and they're getting louder and you know it's because they're |
| 0:35.1 | arguing about different things but they don't realize it and they're just getting |
| 0:38.5 | more and more frustrated and then you try to alleviate the tension by nudging everyone towards some group |
| 0:48.3 | sex and that just makes everything worse in In fact, much, much worse. And pretty soon everyone at the funeral |
| 0:56.3 | is looking at you and you're thinking, wow, this whole debacle could have been easily |
| 1:00.3 | avoided. Well, good news. Here's shortly Dr. Matt Grossman will join me and he's |
| 1:05.1 | going to share an insight with us that's changed how I perceive the Republican and Democratic |
| 1:10.1 | Rockham Sockham Robots competition and if you're like me |
| 1:13.0 | After you finish today's podcast you will better understand the infighting within Democratic and Republican primaries and |
| 1:20.0 | how the two parties don't just have different goals or values, but how they think differently. |
| 1:27.0 | We'll jump into that momentarily. |
| 1:29.0 | And after the interview, my friend Jennings will join me to go over some listener feedback from you, our loyal and |
| 1:35.3 | sveld audience. But first, the political orphanage is brought to you by The Quick sandbox a fond and inescapable pit of delight for |
| 1:46.2 | your children or others. |
| 1:48.2 | I'll elaborate on this new and wonderful sponsor later on in today's program. |
| 2:00.0 | Until then, the political orphanage is also sponsored by the very people who listen to it and ingest it. |
| 2:04.8 | This is an audience-powered podcast and you can join the community by going to Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton. You know sometimes when I drive around in my car |
| 2:10.6 | I put on classical music and once or twice a year I'll encounter one of those donation |
| 2:16.0 | drives on NPR. Frankly, I don't like them. A host will come on and beg for money and then |
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