Josiah is joined by Luke Savage (@LukewSavage, Michael & Us, Jacobin) to reflect on the last fifteen years of U.S. electoral politics in light of the current election year: the failures of the Obama administration, the hyperpolitics of the Trump administration, and the attempted 'return to normalcy' of Biden's first term.

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References

• The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History by Luke Savage
• Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality by Ed Broadbent, Jonathan Sas, Frances Abele, and Luke Savage.
• Leave the World Behind (2023), directed by Sam Esmail.
• "Everything is Hyperpolitical," Anton Jäger in The Point, https://thepointmag.com/politics/everything-is-hyperpolitical.
• Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World by Will Sommers
• "The Biden Era's Defining Characteristic: Anti-Politics," Luke Savage in Jacobin, https://jacobin.com/2023/09/biden-administration-anti-politics-trump-books-media-coverage. This is the article discussing political book sales and online news engagement during the Trump admin vs. the Biden admin that Luke references.
• The Day One Agenda, The American Prospect, https://prospect.org/day-one-agenda.
• "Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power," Luke Savage in The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/why-liberals-feign-powerlessness/616644.
• Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak
• "The Ultimate Election Year: All the Elections Around the World in 2024," Koh Ewe in Time, https://time.com/6550920/world-elections-2024.

Music

• Yesterday – bloom.
• In My Dreams – bloom.