What Are Your Thoughts on What Could Happen?

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Samuel Altschuler: If trump comes back, or democracy is an exidential threat to our democracy. No one's going to trust the election a either if he runs and ses, he's going to blame again, another rigged election. You hear this n rhetoric about civil war. Well, of course, no one saying thre' going to be two armies at gettysburga marching against each other. But youe more local violence and and out of control and activity and protesters. What could happen? He says i'm pretty confident about this being tough in november for democrats.

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.