What's the American Left Doing After the Tea Party?

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Awhit: I think nine 11 was really huge. The american left, as it in the very weak post soviet post nea liberal turnfor that it existsthat existed in the late nineties,. sought its electoral expression with good reason, but not much success. It's till after the tea party, with the emergence of occupy, that you really see the emergence of a coherent American left. Is a very long decade. And i one thing i will say, like, going, this is from teaching recent history, and as a side note, this is a total tangent from the book. But like, i feelike, let's have him, because with

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