Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show. I'm on the road this week in Baltimore for Bloomberg

Beta's Future of Work conference. Lots of great, fascinating conversations that we will

bring into the new year when it comes to looking at 2025,

the incoming Trump administration, and the ongoing political realignment of the United States.

So for today's episode, I'm publishing a great conversation with Noah Smith,

the blogger from the no opinion substack that I cannot recommend enough. Noa and I are conducting

the realignment's final conversation on the 2024 election and what it means for American

politics moving forward. Future episodes are going to be once again much more in that

forward-facing perspective, but I'm also pumped to look back at what happened and what it all

means for the show's themes. And I'm pumped to to look back at what happened and what it all means for the show's

themes. And I'm pumped to keep looking forward as we go into the new year. Hope you all enjoy the

conversation. And a huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation for supporting the

work of this podcast. Noah Smith, welcome back to The Realignment.

Hey, it's great to be back.

Yeah, I'm super pumped to chat with you.

We're kind of doing a set of interviews where we're doing big think tank president interviews,

so Kevin Roberts from Heritage and then of course, Ryhan Salamo, the Manhattan Institute, we're doing

electeds, just did Rokana, about to do Jake Ockin-Coss. But I need to get the take-havers into

this actual system here. People who write and think about these things for a living. I would just

love to start with hearing where your head is at when it comes to the future of

American politics about a week out from the election. There's been so many different takes

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