i do think there's a component, like how much the republican party has changed so much, im over the course of this period. i will peg that to your point about buchanan and various different, ever, other things,. is that, like, trump did not come from nowhere, like inslit. I mean, that there isthatthes, these politics were very much brewing u in 20 16.
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.
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