What is unprecedented about our politics?

This week, Lee and James ask special guest Matt Glassman what is unprecedented about our politics. Matt is a senior fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University and a co-host of the podcast, Congress, Two Beers In. Is American politics in an unprecedented era? Is the decline in civility overstated? Has politics always been rough and tumble? These are some of the question we discuss on this week’s episode.

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Show Notes

Matt questions what he calls the fairytale myth exemplified in Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government.

James references Lee’s new book, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America, when discussing possible alternatives to centralized control of parties.