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The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer

June 05, 2022

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


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