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The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer

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The New Democracy and the War on Poverty

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.

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