I was of the freshmen in college, and the um itin nineten 89. And so i just like it, like, this was so central a kind of my coming of age, and i was in it. The one that i find fastening is, how to switch up movement has fallen out of a kind of popular story. Even i was been surprised in people who, soe people read the lok, who read the book, like didn't, who were younger than i am.
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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