After the 19 84 election, the the democratic leadership councillor, d l c becomes the organizational vehicle for the new democrats. But throughout the 19 eighties, the d l cs rise is energetically resisted from the left by rainbow coalition leader and two time presidential candidate, jesse jackson. And i think it goes to the kind of place that there wer further ten this tensions and actualy they're playing out in today's Democratic Party. One thing about the d l c, i mean, when they they formed, they were all white men, and particularly a mostly white southern men. There was a lot of people from the midest. There were some setle pep
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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