Education: The Key to Equal Opportunity, Though Not Equal Outcomes

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The clinton administration became increasingly close to selicon valley. And that, like the clinton te clysic peeps, and the new democrats did not fully believe in a kind of voucher model. It's also ideologically validating for them, though in some way totally. I think it does lead, but does lead to this tightening relationship between sconvaley and thedeverod party That we see emerge over the courseof the ineteen nineties.

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