The Atari Democracy

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i think its suc critical ways ar f thinking what was going on this in 18 seventies. And so that's where, that's where h and freedmen get newit like this kind of new attention to their ideas. They sort of see that the solution is not to turn took an older that older manufacturing was on the way out,. Now it was bus being sort of be gabille outsource, um to to the global south. Instead they started to push as a kind of economic agenda.

Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn. Read the latest newsletter. It's on what Ruthie meant when she said abolition was another word for communism: thedigradio.com/newsletter31 Listen to Geismer's first Dig interview: thedigradio.com/podcast/race-and-class-in-the-liberal-suburbs-with-lily-geismer Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig