The history of the electoral problem that democrats face to day they abandon the working class and its agenda for suburbanites and professionals. It goes some way, in other words, to explaining how we ended up with elon musk and jeff bazos atop our social economic and politi hierarchies. And i do want to take a quick moment to talk about the digs news letter. We send it out by e mail to everyone who supports us on patrian dot com. Slash the dig, even just a dollar a month. I posted a link to the most recent newsletter in the show notes. Mac penner writing about my interview with ruth wilson, gilmore, al
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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