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We live in interesting times.

America is going through sweeping changes. Unprecedented demographic shifts. A growing gap between the classes. Disruptive technological transformation.

Society is changing.

America is changing.

The world is changing.

Old models of governance no longer seem to work. Institutions are crumbling. Polling, voter models and focus groups are outmoded tools of the last century. Politicians value performance over substance. Populism is replacing ideology.

Can representative government survive in the digital age?

Can democracy?

Can America?

Mike Madrid has been described as “A crazy mixture of an artist, author, demographer, university professor and a cold blooded practitioner of brass knuckle politics.”

From co-founding The Lincoln Project, to heading to Ukraine after the Russian invasion or helping to defeat fascism in the Brazilian elections, Madrid is a rare one. The kind of person who heads directly into the front lines of the global fight for democracy. He reports from a front row seat in The Great Transformation on what we should be focused on and what we should be thinking about during this profound moment in human history.

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