Who is Lee Drutman?

Lee Drutman is the political scientist trying to break America out of what he calls the “two‑party doom loop.” A senior fellow at New America, he argues that the current red‑versus‑blue system traps the country in endless partisan warfare and makes real problem‑solving almost impossible. Through books like Breaking the Two‑Party Doom Loop, his work co‑founding reform groups like Fix Our House, and regular appearances in national media and on his own podcast, Drutman pushes concrete fixes such as proportional representation and ranked‑choice voting to build a healthier multiparty democracy. In this episode, we explain who he is, why he thinks American politics is fundamentally broken, and how his ideas could change the way the United States is governed.

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