530 | Felicia Wong: What Joe Biden's Legacy Means for the Future of American Politics

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Felicia Wong, the outgoing president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Felicia discuss what the Biden presidency means for the left, where the conversation on "post-neoliberalism" stands after Donald Trump's 2024 victory, the need for new communication strategies in the emerging policy environment, how left and right populism will compete for working class voters, and the new politics of immigration.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.
0:07.7	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Today's episode is a Biden presidency wrap-up. I'm speaking
0:13.1	with Felicia Wong, the outgoing CEO and president of the Roosevelt Institute.
0:18.4	Roosevelt Institute played a large role in shaping how the Biden administration thought about the past four years and have the Roosevelt Institute. The Roosevelt Institute played a large role in shaping how the Biden
0:21.5	administration thought about the past four years, and have the left broadly conceives this
0:26.2	political moment. This conversation, we get into the Biden legacy, the long-running debate of
0:31.3	neoliberalism, and what the in-company fights about populism mean for the future of the left.
0:36.9	Hope you all enjoy the conversation, and a huge thank you to the foundation for American
0:40.5	Innovation supporting the work of this podcast.
0:50.3	Felicia Wong, welcome to the realignment.
0:53.3	Marshall, I'm really happy to be here.
0:55.0	I'm really excited to kick off the near start of the year with you.
0:59.0	You are going to have a great conversation with me on the future of progressivism, the left, the center left, all the different factions that listeners enjoy Steve and I nerding and wonking out on.
1:08.0	But I also think you're particularly relevant guest because you're the
1:10.9	outgoing president, CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. And I, as an aggressive FDR person with my Arsenal
1:17.7	Democracy podcast, have so many different things that I can cover with you. So this is very,
1:23.1	very exciting. But the other note, as I wrap up this long winded intro, but I want to really
1:27.3	talk about here is I mentioned this casualty to Steve, but I wrap up this long-winded intro, but I want to really talk
1:27.5	about here is, I mentioned this casualty to Steve, but I think it's important to set the table for
1:31.8	this year. The realignment in its first four or five years was really aggressively focused on
1:37.1	the transformation of the American right in the 2010s period going into the 2020s. And a lot of
1:42.9	that interest came from, if you're looking
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