I’m not going to listen to this yet because I had already started listening to this podcast and would rather listen to this after I finish.
But I just want to say Steve Kornacki is a boss and he shows you can do interesting, engaging, and informative work without trying to make his audience angry or present an account that is meant to please a specific group of people. I will recommend his Newt podcast to everyone I know of different political persuasions.
Kornacki is usually excellent but he’s just the latest political scientist to pinpoint the ‘94 election as the start of a new divisive era (shockingly that just happens to be when the GOP took control after 40 years of being in the wilderness).
The book “Why Congress” by Philip Wallach does a better job with this analysis and pinpoints the 1970s for a variety of grounded reasons that aren’t partisan.
Fantastic conversation, really enjoyed the history lesson. None of my usual nit-picking of this one!
Question though: are we not now seeing yet another change in political eras birthed by the power of social media and election targeting technology (Cambridge Analytica etc)? It seems like a phase-change has occurred, but we're still in the turbulent oscillations at the boundary, haven't yet settled into the new system state.
I’m not going to listen to this yet because I had already started listening to this podcast and would rather listen to this after I finish.
But I just want to say Steve Kornacki is a boss and he shows you can do interesting, engaging, and informative work without trying to make his audience angry or present an account that is meant to please a specific group of people. I will recommend his Newt podcast to everyone I know of different political persuasions.
Kornacki is usually excellent but he’s just the latest political scientist to pinpoint the ‘94 election as the start of a new divisive era (shockingly that just happens to be when the GOP took control after 40 years of being in the wilderness).
The book “Why Congress” by Philip Wallach does a better job with this analysis and pinpoints the 1970s for a variety of grounded reasons that aren’t partisan.
He was an editor for Salon and worked many years at MSNBC. I don't think his own politics are mysterious.
Fantastic conversation, really enjoyed the history lesson. None of my usual nit-picking of this one!
Question though: are we not now seeing yet another change in political eras birthed by the power of social media and election targeting technology (Cambridge Analytica etc)? It seems like a phase-change has occurred, but we're still in the turbulent oscillations at the boundary, haven't yet settled into the new system state.
I agree that this is some sort of new era. So far pretty chaotic though.