The Realignment

The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.

522 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats Shouldn't Offer Voters Diet Coke Populism When They Order Coca-Cola

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comCongressman Jake Auchincloss joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the dangers of offering "Diet Coke" populism when voters are clearly ordering "Coke," how politicians should approach independent media and podcasts as cable news declines, what a building and growth centric agenda looks like, the need to address the debt/deficit, and the debate over "wokeness."

11-21
57:29

521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comDr. Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and author of Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss why Heritage's Project 2025 plan proved so controversial during the 2024 campaign, the case for radically transforming Washington, the exact nature of Donald Trump electoral mandate, the case against the Department of Education, and the state of the conservative movement during and after Trump.

11-19
55:43

520 | Reihan Salam: How Republicans Built a Grand New Party During the Trump Era

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comReihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment. Reihan and Marshall discuss the GOP's transformation from the 200s George W. Bush presidency to Trump's 2024 victory, the party's gains with working-class voters, racial minorities, and men, how his and Ross Douthat's writing about the "Party of Sam's Club" presaged the 20-year transformation of conservatism, and the fractured politics of America's urban regions.

11-14
01:19:43

519 | Rep. Ro Khanna: Rebuilding the Democratic Party After Trump's 2024 Victory

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comRepresentative Ro Khanna returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ro discuss his vision for the post-Biden Democratic Party, how his plans to rebuild America's manufacturing base can actually move voters, what the government can learn from the public sector when it comes to building ambitious projects, podcasting, and the realignment of Latino voters and young men away from Democrats. 

11-12
40:22

Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff Discussion & AMA: How Will a Second Trump Presidency Go? - Free Edition

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloffs discussion and AMA series, they discuss the implications of Donald Trump's victory over Kamala Harris, whether Trump will misinterpret his mandate, immigration policy and the mass-deportation plan, why the left can't build a Joe Rogan equivalent, and more...

11-10
46:03

517 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: 2024 Election Autopsy Part I - The Democrats

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comIn the latest edition of Marshall and Steve Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University discussion series, they discuss reasons behind Kamala Harris's loss to Donald Trump, the debate over whether Kamala should have gone on the Joe Rogan Experience, whether 2010s-2022 "wokeness" fatally wounded Democrats, what a successful 2028 nominee needs to learn from 2024, and of course, a shoutout to the Abundance Agenda.

11-08
56:17

We're All in the Realignment Know - Reflections on Trump's 2024 Election Victory

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comIn today's episode, Marshall reacts to Donald Trump's 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris. He discusses the arrival of the long-forecasted racial realignment, Joe Rogan's impact on the race, how Joe Biden and previous presidents misread their post-election mandates, why abortion wasn't the 2024 election's decisive issues, the future of America's foreign policy, and more...

11-07
34:35

Horns of a Dilemma: Danielle Pletka - What the 2024 Election Means for America's Foreign Policy

Horns of a Dilemma Podcast: Horns of a Dilemma Archives - War on the RocksClements Center for National Security: Clements Center for National SecurityTexas National Security Review: Home - Texas National Security Review (tnsr.org)In a cross-over with Marshall's UT-Austin Clements Center for National Security/Texas National Security Review podcast, Horns of a Dilemma, AEI's Danielle Pletka and Marshall discuss the impact of the 2024 election on America's foreign policy. They discuss the evolution of America's foreign policy on the right and left since the Obama presidency, the state of the Middle East, the War in Ukraine, and what medium-term opportunities the U.S. can seize in the 2020s. 

11-05
37:26

516 | Marshall Kosloff & Saagar Enjeti: The Realignment's 2024 Election Day Special

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comIn a special edition of The Realignment podcast, Marshall and Saagar discuss today's ongoing presidential election. They discuss whether the issue of "character" should determine one's vote, what the realignment's framework got right (and wrong), and the prospects for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on election night.

11-05
58:39

515 | Timothy Shenk: Has the Left Lost the Realignment?

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comTimothy Shenk, GWU Professor and author of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Timothy discuss how culture has replaced economics as the electorate's dividing line, the multiple paths forward for Democrats after they began to lose working-class voters in the 1980s, why political consultants are more important than one would think, and whether the left or right will come out ahead as the American political system realigns.

10-29
57:30

514 | Steve Teles: What Does the Post-November Policy Agenda Look Like?

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comSteve Teles, John Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. On the latest edition of Marshall and Steve's monthly one-on-one, they discuss the policy landscape after the November election (regardless of who wins), their theories of political change, the country's ongoing mood shift from the 2000s and 2010s, and more...

10-24
55:10

513 | Alex Trembath: How America Can Build an Abundant Clean Energy Future

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comAlex Trembath, Deputy Director of the Breakthrough Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Alex discuss the takeaways from Abundance 2024, the case for Ecomodernism, the rise and fall (and rise) of climate policy from An Inconvenient Truth to the Inflation Reduction Act, lessons from the clean energy space for other parts of the Abundance Agenda, and why blue states like California aren’t able to build clean energy, housing, and infrastructure as much as red states like Texas.

10-22
01:09:21

Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: State of the 2024 Race, Climate Protestors at Marshall's Abundance Agenda Event, Audience Qs, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the present state of the 2024 election, climate protestors at Marshall's Abundance Agenda event, answer audience questions, and more.

10-13
26:09

512 | Cameron Abadi: Why Radical Climate Activism Isn't Helping Environmental Politics

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comThis episode's focus on the (lack of) effectiveness of radical climate activism was perfectly timed. Right after Marshall recorded the intro, activists from Climate Defiance stormed the stage of the Abundance 2024 conference he's MCing in DC. They interrupted Matt Yglesias's interview with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson on the "Abundance Agenda" because of Matt's support for fracking. Today's guest is Foreign Policy's Cameron Abadi, author of Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn't Working. Marshall and Cameron discuss why doom-centric radical activism isn't advancing the environmental policy agenda in Europe, the state of climate politics in the U.S., and the broader debate over whether it is best to work outside or within the system to enact change.

10-10
45:30

511 | Admiral James Stavridis: Pre-War America, the U.S. Navy, and How the Lessons of the 1930s Apply to Today

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comAdmiral James Stavridis, former NATO Allied Supreme Commander and author of The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Admiral Stavridis discuss how the challenges facing America in the 1930s: debates over isolationism, economic pessimism, and a military establishment in need of reform, mirror those of the 2020s, the differences between writing a novel about the past vs. the near future, the ever-evolving role of the Navy, and why America's WWII legacy is increasingly controversial.

10-08
41:18

Realignment Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: How Can Listeners Advance the Abundance Agenda, 2024 Winner Prediction, JD Vance as VP, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Marshall answers subscriber's AMA questions. He offers advice and how listeners can join and impact the Abundance Agenda, predicts who win the 2024 election, why disaster news-cycles don't last very long, who will pick up Trump's GOP mantle after 2028, whether VP JD Vance could influence Trump on policy, and more...

10-06
06:20

510 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: Why We Embraced the Abundance Agenda

Steve Teles | The Rise of the Abundance Faction: The rise of the abundance faction (niskanencenter.org)Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com

10-03
01:26:25

509 | H.W. Brands: America First - Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh and the Long Shadow of WWII

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comH.W. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and H.W. discuss the ways that FDR and Charles Lindbergh's debate over American intervention in WWII parallel today's debates over Ukraine and Taiwan, the origins of the phrase "America First," why non-interventionism shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, why FDR won the "great debate" with the America First Committee, even before Pearl Harbor, and how Lindbergh's story offers lessons for humility when approaching politics and war from the outsider's perspective.  

10-01
59:05

508 | Gary Winslett: The New Cost-of-Living Agenda, Abundance, and Supply-Side Reform

Cost-of-Living Agenda Report: https://bringcostsdown.org/Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comGary Winslett, Chamber of Progress Senior Advisor, Middlebury College Professor, and author of the Democratic Cost-of-Living Agenda, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Gary discuss why voters rank rising costs as their top election concern, how housing, energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and childcare are limited by a lack of supply and rising costs, the case for the abundance agenda and supply-side progressivism, and the increasing bipartisan consensus in favor of reform.

09-26
52:09

507 | Max Boot: The End of the Reagan Era and the Future of the GOP

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comMax Boot, Washington Post columnist and author of Reagan: His Life and Legacy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Max discuss whether (unlike previous Republican Presidents and nominees) Reagan would have supported Trump, why the Reagan Era of American politics is coming to an end, whether Never Trump identifying conservatives have a future in the Republican Party, and why Biden's attempt to create a center-left version of Reagan's presidency failed. 

09-24
57:57

Gerard

this episode was a whole load of nothing.

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cole hewitt

has san francisco decrimnalzed drugs? did california?

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Eric Alvarez

This guy is just rambling. He doesn't sound like he knows much of anything

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Karen Martin

Thanks for clarifying the Lincoln logo. The logos for the Lincoln Project and the Lincoln Network are so similar that at first glance it was confusing and created apprehension.

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Sam Nami

The Realignment is my favourite podcast out there! I religiously follow it every week! Love the brilliant discussions Saagar and Marshall have with all the guests!

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