Do You Think the Republican Party Is a Good Candidate for the Presidency?

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The GOP has been very good at keeping the conversation around these, to me, kind of nebulous, weird cultural outcries about grooming. The more you do that, the less you're talking about unpopular tax cuts for rich people or de regulation of pollutes,. You know, it helps to domina. If you dominate, get politics to be dominated by a certain of cultural arguments that can redound republicans benefit. And this is part of whyt there's big internal debate among democrats as to how best to deal with identity and culture all the time.

Shermer and Rosenfeld discuss: why we have a duopoly • gerrymandering • voting restrictions • how we know all elections are not rigged • abortion • immigration • US foreign policy • the rise of conservative and liberal think tanks • ideology • political polarization • political leanings of industrialists vs. tech billionaires and rural poor vs. urban poor • Trump and 2016, 2020, and 2024 (are we facing civil unrest as never seen before?), and more…

Sam Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, specializing in party politics and American political development. His research interests include the history of political parties, the intersection of social movements and formal politics, and the politics of social and economic policymaking. His book, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era (University of Chicago Press, 2018), offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization in the postwar United States. With Daniel Schlozman at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently writing a book on party development since the Founding, provisionally titled The Hollow Parties. His writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, Boston Review, Democracy, The New Republic, The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, and Vox.