Bush vs. Bush: Is He a Republican or a Reformed?

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George w. Bush is an evangelical and in that one of those primary debates when they asked, who's your favorite philosopher? And he said, jesus. He famously found god when a lora threatened to take the kids and leave him because of his alcoholism and stuff. Even his son was growing up, but his son adopted this kind of texas ranch rancher, a cowboy, a style a. But his dad was the blue blood, old line moderate republican,. deeply inscanched in the post war establishment institutions.

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.