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

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 and Working-Class History Association , November 23, 2016. Support the show