The New Democracy and the War on Poverty

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The war on poverty was a relatively small response to a very large, pressing problem. New democrats often used kind of almost astronman version of new dea liberalism,. and especially of the great society, to promote it as these big bureacratic programs. One oo the big things is that actually over emphasized how redistributive they were going to be. So i often represented the great society inaccurately as to what it was accomplishing. And i don't think this came from both the kind of new democrats, but also the republicans, and te republicans still do this about the war on poverty.

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