Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson

Partisan Divide Reflects Decades of Loss in Working Class USA

By Robin Johnson

Published November 14, 2024 at 11:03 PM CST

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Michael Kruse, Politico Magazine -- Staff mugshots photographed Feb. 16, 2018. (M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)

Michael Kruse, senior staff writer at Politico, talks about a recent article he wrote focusing on how politics severed a relationship between two brothers and how it is symphonic of our national hyper-partisanship. He also discusses how, as a reporter, he serves as a translator or intermediary between Red and Blue America.

Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson

Robin Johnson

Robin A. Johnson is a governmental relations, public policy and political consultant. He is an expert on government reform issues and has consulted with numerous local governments on consolidation/merger, public-private partnerships and full-cost accounting of public services. Robin has also helped candidates win elections for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, state legislature, judiciary and local government. Robin served as a consultant to the Office of Statewide Performance Review in the Illinois Governor’s Office and is former director of the Illinois Center for Competitive Government, a partnership between the Illinois Comptroller’s Office and the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University. Prior to that, he was Director of the Local Government Affairs Division of the Illinois Comptroller’s Office. Robin served on the Board of Directors of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP) in 1999-2000.

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