There's a wave of organizing, an interesting kind of up taken in business, organizing, in politics more generally. Their concern was people who really didn't think that they were communist agents,. But unwittingly were taking the country down this road it would never recover from. They wanted to emphasize the perversity, futility and jeopardy of liberalism.
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.
Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics thedigradio.com/podcast/fear-city-with-kim-phillips-fein/
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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