i just don't think like that was that all those oud bekk ta, kind of kinder version of the sister soldier moment atat there was any kind of idea ht tk, that actually would be appealing to black voters. So i think it's part of a kind of similar kind of effort of appeal to a particular kind of voter. But you have people like john lewis who basically, like, believe that he's horrified by these statements, but basically say this is better for my constituents. Am, then having another another republican terms, you have a lot of people who are hinted like making peace with is from besly, from the outset of the linto
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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