We kick off Front & Center with a deep dive into the Restore the North tour — a political spectacle wrapped in populist branding and regional grievance. Through a panel of sharp voices, we unpack the optics, the strategy, and the stakes behind the movement. Is it a genuine call for northern renewal, or a rebrand for reactionary politics? We trace the historical echoes, decode the rhetorical plays, and confront the democratic fault lines it exposes.
Democracy, Uncensored. One episode. One target. All in
“Restore the North isn’t a movement — it’s a mirror.
Behind the flannel and frontier talk lies a calculated rebrand: grievance politics dressed in regional pride. This isn’t about geography. It’s about power — who holds it, who hoards it, and who’s trying to weaponize nostalgia to get it back. The North doesn’t need restoring. It needs reckoning.”
