ft. Dr. Robert Chiles, Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland. The conversation opens with Dr. Chiles providing context to the erosion of trust in American government. Dr. Chiles explains that the far Right has taken to anti-government rhetoric and the far Left has pushed for massive expansions to the social safety net in attempts to appeal to their constituents once they've lost faith in government (10:00). Politicians like George Wallace normalized modern “outsider rhetoric” that is frankly race-baiting (17:15). Dr. Chiles says that it has since morphed into a coded langauge that the public understands and that conservatives have readily embraced. Given Trump’s impeachment, Arinze asks what America has done in hostoric moments of crisis and divisiveness to heal itself in the past (21:00). The conversation then turns to the impact of globalism (28:55) and capitalism (38:00) on American politics. The podcast wraps with an examination of the Supreme Court (43:00), the Senate (50:00), and the House’s ability (or inability) to withstand the corrosive effects of today’s politics.