‘I don’t necessarily think bipartisanship means weakness’
Fritz Benson on working across the aisle to solve state problems
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Have you noticed that politicians struggle to enact the things they run on? They find themselves bound by what is popular, or at least their sense of it. The narrow range of policies that they can enact is called the Overton Window. The Overton Window podcast looks at issues around the country and the people changing what is politically possible.
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