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302 | Timothy Shenk: The Struggle to Realign American Politics from Alexander Hamilton to Obama and Trump

The Realignment

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LBJ Versus MLK - Is There a Governing Majority?

The book emerges up and it has to get beyond the LBJ versus MLK binary. The way forward is building this multi-racial coalition that's rooted in the working class draws in the Black church, also organized labor. That is still the best starting point for an authentically democratic solution to this crisis democracy. I just want to make sure that we don't end up other country doesn't elect a elected Trumpist or some Ron DeSantis Glenn-Youngkin.

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