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In Jonathan Rauch's tongue-in-cheek dystopia, Kanye West is running for the Democratic presidential nomination and the star of Duck Dynasty leads the GOP. Paul Ryan has long since given up the speakership, and government shutdowns have become all too familiar to American voters.
 
Mr. Rauch writes in 

 for The Atlantic:  "Yes, the political future I've described is unreal.  But it is also a linear extrapolation of several trends on vivid display right now." 

MPR News host Kerri Miller talked with Rauch and with 

, chair for political science at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, about just how crazy American politics has become...and what can be done to fix it. 

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The cover story of The Atlantic asks how and when American politics went insane. Our guests and callers offer ideas for how to fix it.

In Jonathan Rauch's tongue-in-cheek dystopia, Kanye West is running for the Democratic presidential nomination and the star of Duck Dynasty leads the GOP. Paul Ryan has long since given up the speakership, and government shutdowns have become all too familiar to American voters.
 
Mr. Rauch writes in a cover story for The Atlantic:  "Yes, the political future I've described is unreal.  But it is also a linear extrapolation of several trends on vivid display right now." MPR News host Kerri Miller talks with Rauch and University of Minnesota political scientist Larry Jacobs about just how crazy American politics has become.

Can we take the crazy out of politics?

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