Clint Eastwood's new book focuses on the impact of welfare reform. It was a reaction to the gingrich republican revolution of 94, and quinton tacking right in response. But he'd been a big advocate of welfare reform from his time as governor in arkansas. The core ideas of welfare reform were things that clinton believed in, and the ideas of welfare work.
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
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