It's not the case that people are stuck in party identities.

There are a lot of Americans who are going to vote this year for a party they did not vote for 10 years ago.

That kind of change is happening.

The trouble is it's happening in a way that remains

bifurcated that remains at 50-50 in part because the big question is really a

yes or no question rather than a question about the future about the

range of issues that might shape people's lives and I think in that sense both parties

are failing to offer a political vision that might foster a coalition.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Welcome to a special election episode of The Good Fight, with only a few weeks left until the

U.S. presidential election.

I thought that I would invite some of the most insightful past guests of the good fight to give us an update on the race and to answer a question that's been bugging me which is why do American elections keep

turning out to be so tight why in this particular period of American history but not

in many other periods do we end up with these really close-run results?

So today I had on Yoval Levin, who is a senior fellow,

as well as the director of social cultural and

constitutional studies at AI as well as the author of many insightful books

including most recently American Covenant how the Constitution unified our nation and the the person who came up with the idea of a sort of rising demographic majority who also has been one of the most insightful critics of that idea and he is the author most recently of the excellent where have all the Democrats gone the soul of the party in the age of extremes and much of our

conversation is based on a really excellent report that the two of them have

co-offered for AI called Politics Without Winners, can either party build a majority coalition, a report which poses the question of what it would take for either Democrats or Republicans to break through the partisan gridlock and the close-run elections of the last few times.

I hope you enjoy the conversation.

If you also want access to future bonus episode of the podcast, as well as the bonus material I include in the conversations every week with major thinkers from around the world, please go now to Yashamunk.

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