Saagar & Marshall Supercast AMA & Discussion Preview: Campus Protests, the Cost of Middle East Ignorance, and the Roots of Third Party Political Failure

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: [email protected] for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiCraig Whitlock, Washington Post reporter and author of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy & The Afghanistan Papers, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Craig discuss how a Malaysian defense contractor, Leonard Francis (nicknamed "Fat Leonard"), bribed scores of high-ranking U.S. Navy officers across three decades, defrauded the Navy out of tens of millions of dollars, exposed vast security and counter-intelligence gaps in the military, and the reforms needed to prevent future corruption scandals.

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall evaluate whether the campus protests sweeping schools across the country are effective, analyze the question of whether bipartisan policy failure in the Middle East is due to ignorance, and discuss why third parties and their candidates such as Ross Perot and RFK Jr. fail to translate their initial ballot success into long-term political change. 

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Subscribe to The Realignment to access the full version of this episode and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the fallout from Iran and Israel's latest escalation cycle, what the passage of Ukraine aid means for the battlefield and Zelensky's political strategy, take-aways from their latest live events (conference on black conservatism and an Israel livestream debate), take audience questions, and more...