What's the Problem of the Democratic Party Going Forlike Now?

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The m d c issues this kind of their own version of an autopsy of the election, which im by two political scientists. And they call the politics of evasion. The way for democrats to win is to go after a kind oft would be swing voters. So that the solution is not to try to win over and galvanize grass root support from people of color or other groups who don't traditionally vote in elections. But how to win as t you go after these other voters. This becomes like critical to the kind of strategy of the d lc going forward.

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