The Politics of Goglization in the Nineties

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In the nineties, what you see is the emergence of sorts of weird tendencies that become more and more important in american politics. Andn there's very much a lot ime on. But i do thinkk, all those campaigns do show signs of this or that. Those were like ten lege sort of tendencies and campaigns. Ye, ite know, think there are these moments de com and i don't don't sometimes te o to take like the lens of the present, to go back to the past.

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