i want to talk about the new democrats in intellectual influences. And by the end of his life, some one like john lewis seems pretty content with the direction that bill qulinton took the democratic party,. Ye. I think that that is o catmean, i think, ya. There's the book, am steffy mudges, do any ma? Yes, goes into deas and ithink it's really critical.
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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