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Lost in the Middle: America’s Political Orphans
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Mike talks with Scott Klug, an Emmy award-winning journalist, former member of Congress, and currently co-chair of the Federal Public Affairs Practice at the national law firm of Foley & Lardner. He’s also a podcaster - the founder and host of Lost in the Middle: America’s Political Orphans – and writes the Lost in the Middle Substack.
Topics Mike and Scott Discuss Include:
- Scott’s move from journalism to Congress to lobbyist
- changes in the GOP from Reagan to Trump
- corruption in Congress
- the importance of local investigative journalism
- why neither party seems to focus much on the middle
- institutional factors driving partisanship
- if things are likely to get worse before they get better
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Manage episode 435414320 series 2312968
Mike talks with Scott Klug, an Emmy award-winning journalist, former member of Congress, and currently co-chair of the Federal Public Affairs Practice at the national law firm of Foley & Lardner. He’s also a podcaster - the founder and host of Lost in the Middle: America’s Political Orphans – and writes the Lost in the Middle Substack.
Topics Mike and Scott Discuss Include:
- Scott’s move from journalism to Congress to lobbyist
- changes in the GOP from Reagan to Trump
- corruption in Congress
- the importance of local investigative journalism
- why neither party seems to focus much on the middle
- institutional factors driving partisanship
- if things are likely to get worse before they get better
The Politics Guys on Facebook | X
Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack.
Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.
The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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