Is There a Difference Between Democrat and Republican?

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Ina jum: We need to reach much further away from the center, because anywhere near the center, say, between the two forty yard lines, they're all the same. So when this is like when ralph nader was running for president and saying, there's really no difference between democrats and republicans,. There there they're all just pro corporate. And you know, they're in the pocket of rich people and the media and what not. We need something radically different. Ina Jum: Sanders recognized that a to run a kind of robust left wing, a national presidential campaign, the way to do it responsibly is to actually go inside one of the two existing

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.