The New Democratic Party, the New Deal, the Democratic Party and the Black Panthers

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For new democrats, politics is advancing free trade, deregulation and non union high tech work. That that was accompanied by these reactionary appeals and policies on criminal justice, immigration,. affirmative action and the explicit promotion of the heteronormative nuclear family. They called fort preventing crime and punishing criminals, not explaining away their behavior. And forqte, equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

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