Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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2028 won’t just be another presidential election.

Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen discuss the issues that could shape the next race, from the future of both political parties to AI, the internet, and the forces changing how Americans see the world.

Their argument: these shifts won’t happen one at a time. By 2028, they could collide.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Why 2028 could be different
0:26 - Politics gets more radical
1:12 - The fight over MAGA after Trump
2:56 - Democrats face an identity crisis
3:15 - AI becomes a political issue
4:12 - The new 2028 issue set
5:42 - AI gets deployed at scale
7:26 - The post-web platform shift
8:22 - Life in an LLM-based world
10:49 - AI and the wealth gap
12:29 - Why all of this hits at once