The Importance of Jessie Jackson in the Democratic Party

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Jessie jackson, as i aman n some ways, is a, is an unreliable figure m for standing in for the left. And so he becomes a fail and i do think his campaigns in the eighties are like profound um. He was able tod o put their message into a very kind of populous language,. So i think that that effective translation was really critical to the d l c. To your larger gressio at the left, this is a huge piece of the left, behind play on words.

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