546 | Rotimi Adeoye: Where Does Abundance, the Anti-Oligarchy Movement, and the Dem Tea Party Go Next?

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Rotimi Adeoye, columnist and MSNBC contributor, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Rotimi discuss the takeaways from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance book tour as the abundance agenda picks up steam, the impact of Bernie Sanders and AOC's anti-oligarchy tour, the strengths and weaknesses of the very online attempts to build a Democratic Party equivalent of the GOP's 2010s Tea Party movement, and the difficulties of navigating immigration politics during an era of anti-establishment backlash.

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0:00.0	Marcia here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.9	Hey, everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:05.9	One of my favorite episodes over the past month or so was my conversation with Steve Tewis
0:10.0	of the Niskanon Center and Felicia Wong of the Roosevelt Institute.
0:15.0	We discussed the polarizing debate between populists on the left and those who support the abundance agenda that I talked
0:22.8	about with Ezra Klein and have covered over the past year or so on this podcast.
0:27.7	What I like so much about the episode of Felicia and Steve is that we both acknowledge the
0:32.1	idea that there are different people who believe different things about different topics,
0:36.2	those being in this case the left populist
0:38.7	associated with the Biden administration and Elizabeth Warren, and the more center-coded abundance
0:44.5	agenda folks.
0:45.6	We made pretty clear in the episode, though, of it despite the fact that there are disagreements
0:49.3	about applying ideas of populism or abundance, there's actually a lot more room for agreement and
0:56.5	forward-facing action than you would think. So I want to continue that tradition and focus by bringing
1:01.0	out my good friend, Rottimi Adouye, who is a columnist and MSNBC contributor, formerly of the
1:06.6	ACU and Senator Bob Casey. In this episode, we cover a lot of the topics, once again, going over
1:12.3	the abundance and populism discourse and where it moves from here, of course, covering broader
1:18.5	debates around the Democratic Party's path forward from a realignment perspective and plenty of
1:22.9	other things. Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation for supporting the work
1:26.7	of this podcast. Rowe, Timi Adeoé, welcome to the foundation for American Innovation for supporting the work of this podcast.
1:28.9	Rowe, Timmy, Adai, welcome to The Realignment.
1:32.2	Thanks for having me. Looking forward to our conversation today.
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