i think there's been like a forgetting of that how bad that decade was, and what actually was going on. Ony also, the as was so anaemic, because he was still captured by the very new democrat logic that robert reuben helped cement in the 19 nineties. They talk and they like one back ans all the same. It's the very it's all the people the sa came back on and helped us at the policy. There was this idealike we to get back to that moment of the clinton years, and like use a bomba as a vessel to do that. So, a, i think that that was, i think there was happening too
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.
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