The History of the New Democratic Party

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The new liberalization of the democratic party was, in essence, a reaction to the regan revolution. The story has been told that everything was just done in kind of reaction to the republican so this idea that any and especially ron these kind of market oriented policies were an echo of triangulation. In meit very is different. And i wanted to understand what what the trajectory of the party is,. It's more about kind of a broader strowy of transformation and contonuities and changes.

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