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IN THIS EPISODE:
We sit down with Ron Brownstein, senior editor at The Atlantic and senior political analyst for CNN to talk about how responses and attitudes towards the coronavirus differ along the same lines that divide the country politically. What does this divide mean for how this pandemic unfolds? How will it all play out politically, and what does it mean for November?
Brownstein is one of the nation’s top political journalists. He’s a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written six books, including The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America.
His analysis that America is in the midst of a battle between the Coalition of Transformation and the Coalition of Restoration is one of the most illuminating frameworks for understanding U.S. politics presented by any analyst.
REFERENCES:
Ron Brownstein - CNN Profile // The Atlantic // @RonBrownstein
The Atlantic // Ron Brownstein - Red and Blue America Aren’t Experiencing the Same Pandemic
Ron Brownstein - The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Jonathan Metzl - Dying of Whiteness
Frank Chin (Editor), Jeffery Paul Chan (Editor), Lawson Fusao Inada (Editor), Shawn Wong (Editor) - AIIIEEEEE!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance
Homer // Translated by Robert Fitzgerald - The Odyssey
Manuel Pastore - USC