Recanati-Kaplan Talks

Bill Kristol with Mayor David Holt: Polarization in American Politics

Apr 06, 2022

Polarization is happening across the political spectrum in America — but the Republican Party is undergoing an ideological sea change and a split from within. What does it mean for the future of our political system? Join veteran conservative writer William Kristol and newly re-elected Republican Mayor of Oklahoma City David Holt for an insider’s perspective on the shifting power balance in the Republican Party and its reverberations throughout American politics. How does today’s GOP differ from the last generation? How is this shift changing the calculus for Democrats and progressives? What does the term “conservative” mean today? Are there bigger ideological schisms still to come? And how are these dynamics playing out on the city, state, and federal levels across party lines? Hear Kristol and Holt answer these urgent questions and more as they consider what it all means for the American political system and democracy itself.

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