The New Deal Welfare State and Welfare to Work

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The new democrat approach is trying to sort of combine those things. It's actually saying that the market can an um, can serve for doing the work that was once just the sort of protected by social welfare. And so it's this kind of other word that i think they use a lot as a ide of tisigo win, win.

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