I Think Clinton Genuinely Believed in That Idea

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There's a very easy way to read that and be like, that is so disintenulik toilinton. But i think he really believed in that idea in a couple of different ways. And jason de parl's great book on wellfare, american dream about welfare reform. That was his point that like clinton going back to his own, like, you can psycho analyze hamd bi going backto his own childhood. Believed in this. The piece for me was more about the ways in which these programmes like has now become this cascade of these stories.

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