589 | Danielle Lee Tomson: When the Story Breaks: MAGA, Liberalism, and the Battle to Define Reality

Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today's episode is a sequel of sorts to last fall's conversation with doctor Danielle Leigh Thompson, where we discussed her concepts of the authenticity gap, order of a building, storytelling, and a lot of the big themes the realignment wants to cover moving forward as we look at a center left liberal progressive politics that finds itself in the place the right found itself after the twenty twelve election. We're gonna rehash some of that fall conversation. But in terms of directing people where the show is going and where a lot of my editorial focus is going to be, the themes we cover, everything from fusion in between feuding factions on the center left to the left, and the broader conversations about where the American people are relative to the ideas, policies, polls, and sort of procedures and tactics that come out of DC are really at the center. So I hope you all enjoy the conversation. And if you haven't listened to the previous episode of Danielle, it's number five seven three, and it came out in mid September. Hope you all enjoy the conversation. Danielle Lee Thompson, welcome back to the Realignment. Thank you, Marshall, and happy New Year. Happy New Year. This will be the second episode of the Realignment this year. And this is episode I'm actually really psyched to put together. So you and I spoke in August, and I released our first episode back in September. And not to gas you up too much, but out of all of the episodes I've done over the past, like, two years or so where I was really sort of coming to the realization that the first few years of the realignment sort of reached an end point and the story was going to evolve. So I was interested in taking the show a bunch of different places. Your episode received just like the most just sort of positive go down this lane feedback for people. I won't name names, but there are very significant and important people in DC world who've literally said they pulled over on the side of the road after listening to you speak about these issues and called me wanting to articulate their thoughts. So I really wanna make clear here and plant a flag that, like, you and I have been working together. We are gonna work together. And I really just want this whole authenticity gap, worldview, story building. What's the future of ideology conversation to really be the realignment's better bread and butter. So with this episode, we're gonna sort of hopefully chart new ground. But in other ways, because it's the start of the year, I want to really just sort of make clear to people in a way they'll notice, like, what the deal is here. So before we kind of get into discussing a lot of your work and my shared …