The Foundations of the 19 Sixties and the Coke Brothers

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Where is all the money coming from for these thing tanks and other sources of media, like george sorros on one side and the coke brothers on the other side? Is what you hear now. But going back who, you know, did the billionaires just decide instead, given the money, tohi politicians i mound, have found this thing tank, and we're going to send out white papers to politicians everywhere. These are our talking points. Ye. I mean, so you had a, in ah, you had, again, these gilded age and progressive era foundations, a rockefeller ford. They've been around forever. There was a wave of kind of investments

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.