Bill Schneider on How America Can Govern Again
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March 5, 2019
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Third Way's Offices
1025 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington, DC, 20036
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"Standoff"
In the 1960s, a rift developed between the Old America and the New America that resulted in a populist backlash that ultimately elected Donald Trump in 2016. Schneider describes an American populism that is economically progressive and culturally conservative. Liberals are attacked as cultural elitists (“limousine liberals”), and conservatives as economic elitists (“country club conservatives”). Trump is the complete populist package. He embraces social populism (anti-immigrant), economic populism (anti-free trade), and isolationism (“America First”). Standoff examines a number of hard-fought elections to show us how we got to Trump.
Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider, a leading U.S. political analyst, is Professor of Policy, Government and International Affairs at George Mason University. He is also a contributor to Al Jazeera English, Huffington Post and Reuters.com. He was the Cable News Network’s senior political analyst from 1990 to 2009.
Schneider has covered every U.S. presidential and midterm election since 1976 for The Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has also covered elections in other countries (U.K., Germany, Mexico, Israel, Japan). Schneider has been labeled “the nation’s electionmeister” by the Washington Times and “the Aristotle of American politics” by the Boston Globe. Campaigns & Elections magazine called him “the most consistently intelligent analyst on television.” He was a member of the CNN political team that won an Emmy for its 2006 election coverage and a Peabody for its 2008 coverage. He also previously served as a senior fellow and resident scholar at Third Way.
Schneider received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University, where he subsequently taught in the Department of Government. From 1990 through 1995, he was the Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Visiting Professor of American Politics at Boston College. In 2002, he was the Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis University. From 2009 to 2012, he was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Brandeis University in 2008.
The first dozen people in the door will receive a free copy of Bill Schneider's book! Breakfast will be served.