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    Slide Meet The Host Hello, I am Mike Madrid. One of America's leading Latino political strategists, Mike Madrid has been changing the outcomes of campaigns for nearly thirty years. A graduate of Georgetown University, his work has influenced Presidential, gubernatorial, congressional and local elections. Strategist, Entrepreneur, Teacher and Artist, Madrid serves on the Board of directors of the American Association of Political Consultants and co-founded The Lincoln Project. Mike Madrid Slide Meet The Host Hello, I am Gregory Rodriguez. Gregory has been a book author, newspaper columnist, television political pundit, independent scholar, think tank fellow, iconoclastic intellectual entrepreneur, publisher, and editor. His writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The (Singapore) Straits Times. Foreign Affairs called his book "Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America" "required reading for anyone interested in the future of the United States." He is currently working on two new books, "The Pope of Wilshire Boulevard," about minority strategies for maintaining dignity in U.S. society, and "Purity," on the role of innocence and victimization in the formation and evolution of white American identity. His newest essays can be found on Contra Mundum.

    "Americanata is a disparaging–yet sometimes admiring–Italian term used to describe anything American that is over the top, kitschy, or ridiculously overblown. It’s in this spirit of loving, irreverent self-critique that two veteran observers of American culture and politics convene animated conversations on this site–via podcasts–on our nation’s past, present, and future." Mike Madrid "There’s way too much certainty in America today. Too little serendipity, too few epiphanies, and not enough places where people are encouraged to think out loud, figure things out, come up with new ways of seeing life, their country, their world."
    Gregory Rodriguez.