The Other Side of the Story (w/ Michael Kazin)
Know Your Enemy
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Did Democrats Do Something Different?
As someone who didn't live through that history, did you get the sense they could have done things differently? Ye, it's a good question. Of course, historians are told not to do counterfactual you knowall right, podcasters, we do it all the time. Anything's not possibleis and the problem is, politics about social forces. Democrats would not have been the defacto labor party in american politics if a labor hadn't gone from three million members 90 33 to 15 million members in 19 forty five. When political orders end, as dillinger says, i'm probably going to be followed by a more conservative order.
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