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Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.

Sources/Links/Notes:

Lily Geismer wrote an outstanding and comprehensive book, published in 2022, on Clinton and the legacy of neoliberal policies called Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality.
Lily Geismer, "How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable," The Nation, December 13, 2022.
Alex Parnee, “The Disastrous Legacy of the New Democrats,” The New Republic, May 16, 2022.
Michael Pierce, “How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions” The Labor a

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How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class

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