The book is about what bill clinton meant when he said he was aqt new kind of democrat. The same went for the entire democratic leadership council, or d l c. It was the new democrat's mission to re invent government so that it handed over more of its responsibilities to the free market. For hilary quinton, it was also a way to re invent feminism, cele ing entrapener ship as the way to empower women. This is the history of how the democrats helped to viscerate what little of a social safety net existed in the name of market magic.
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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Listen to Geismer's first Dig interview: thedigradio.com/podcast/race-and-class-in-the-liberal-suburbs-with-lily-geismer
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