302 | Timothy Shenk: The Struggle to Realign American Politics from Alexander Hamilton to Obama and Trump
The Realignment
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The Difficulty of Transformational Coalition Building Today
Paul Waldman: I think folks underestimate the sheer actual difficulty of the political dilemmas and challenges in front of any ambitious, but fair-minded politician. He says a politician today has to navigate the fact that like incentive systems are aligned the wrong direction. "I don't think even if it's worth accepting that American life might be doomed," he writes, "we can still make things better"
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