Working class people didn't just leave the party. They were really actively pushed out, he says. And it's clear that this suicidal philosophy guided democrats, at least all the way through 20 16, when schumer infamously said,. quote, for every blue collared democrat we lose in western pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate republicans in the suburbs of philadelphia.
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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