What's Next for Populist Dems After Trump & Biden? (with Josh Green) TNL Sunday
Jan 7, 2024
NYT bestselling author Josh Green joins Tim to discuss his new book, The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics.
= new reply since forum marked as read
beginning in, like, 1980 with catastrophic effects that led to the financial crisis ... ." Blame Democrats!
Myth that the white working class left the Democratic Party from the '70s because good manufacturing jobs went away, wages stagnated, inequality increased. Economic anxiety drove them to the Republican Party. Democrats then plotted to abandon unions, ignore the working/middle class, turned to Wall Street for funding (because all they care about is money, forget all that FDR/LBJ good policy stuff because they weren't bad corrupt establishment elite liberal Democrats (the true roadblock to progress) but "democratic socialists" ).
BEHOLDEN! to oligarchs, billionaires, CEOs, wealthy donors, lobbyists, Big this and that and Goldman Sachs Wall Street Wall Street Wall Street 
. Same neoliberal economic policies as Republicans (Democrats only pretend to be nice about some social issues to fool people into voting for them).
Ridiculous. McGovern lost 38% of Democratic voters ("I opened up the Democratic Party and 20 million people walked out" ). White working and middle classes left the Democratic Party from 1964 to 1973 when hourly compensation for workers increased about 23%, number of manufacturing jobs rose by 16%, by 1972 income inequality was very low, marginal income tax on the rich was something like 70%. WHAT economic anxiety?
Culture wars, racism, changes in the culture and same today. I hate these populist myths that demonize and lie about Democrats, help elect Republicans.
