Are We Going to Go After Donald Trump?

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Soye: We are potentially watching a ideological kind of realignment. Trump was this loane operator, including someone like steve bannon who purported to be a visionary and how it was going to change. But he didn't have a kind of movement behind him. He's gong to run again, probably, ah, he might be president again. And you do see a a kind of repositioning just as trump in broad strokes, two thousand 16 made it clear, i don't care about small or big government. I'm not here to make the government small. Im, i've got certain things. I'll protect your entitlements, if you want your entitlements

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.