Yuval Levin on the Coming Realignment

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Yuval Levin discuss why neither Democrats nor Republicans have built a durable post-Cold War coalition—and how American politics could be transformed in 2028. Yuval Levin is an academic and the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Levin is the author of A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream and, most recently, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Yuval Levin discuss the different strands of post-Cold War American conservatism from the George W. Bush administration to the Tea Party and the “Reformicon” movements; why both Democrats and Republicans have failed to “make new friends while keeping the old”; and what conservative post-liberals miss about the value of American institutions. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, it's been a crazy year so far and there's a lot more to come.
0:04.4	But you don't need us to tell you that.
0:06.2	Change begins now.
0:08.2	And we have an election to win.
0:10.6	I'm Michael Safi.
0:12.0	And I'm Helen Pitt, and we're the host of Today in
0:14.0	focus the Guardian's Daily News Podcast. Every day we'll be getting behind the
0:18.0	global headlines and offer deep dives on lesser known stories you might not realize
0:22.3	are impacting you so that you'll take
0:23.9	away something new from every single episode listen to today in focus every
0:28.3	weekday on Spotify. I think in this election if either party just ran a 55 year old governor of any
0:36.0	state that person could win a big majority. To be in that situation means you're
0:41.8	really doing your job very poorly as a political party.
0:45.0	The job of the party is to win elections.
0:48.0	And both parties now behave as though their job is to speak for the deepest seated resentments of their most
0:56.0	committed voters. Those voters are going to vote for you. They're not going to vote
0:59.6	for the other guy. The question is how do you win the person who could go either way and neither party behaves like it's trying to answer that question right now.
1:07.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. monk.
1:17.0	We have been working hard to improve the audio quality of the podcast, but sometimes content has to go over audio quality.
1:26.0	Today is such a time.
1:28.0	I am in transit, recording this at an airport, so sorry for all of the background noise but I could not let this
1:35.3	podcast go out without saying a few words about the debate that took place as I'm
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