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302 | Timothy Shenk: The Struggle to Realign American Politics from Alexander Hamilton to Obama and Trump

The Realignment

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Are You Trying to Judge a Democratic Senator?

Democrats have this habit of not being candidates. I think Buttigieg is someone who understands intellectually what the polls are saying, but who is so much the embodiment of this perfect blue America professional achievement class oriented worldview that no matter what he says, it's just going to be processed through the MSNBC filter. This is a problem. It's where the old school partisan hacks have a point over the activists. And there's a lot of progressism that congratulates itself on its prethinking when in fact it's just another type of conformism. But I do think that Democrats should be worried about the sort of sensible lays that so often settles over the party,. especially for a group that is the

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