How Post-Watergate Liberals Killed Their Populist Soul - The Atlantic

The headline kind of give away the idea that something in our thinking has been wrong for a long time but this is actually a long historical article about the rebirth of Neo Liberalism as a dominate policy framework in American goverment.  (to which I have never ascribed.)  I highly recommend a through reading in light of the current split in public debate over the question of whether the Democrats planted the seeds of their own demise at the hands of Donald Trump or if the left is just divided by by those who support the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and felt awakened and empowered by Occupy and vindicated by the economic collapse of 2008.  It is a big question and deserves serious study especially in the context of hyper angsty threads in mainstream and social media.

How Post-Watergate Liberals Killed Their Populist Soul - The Atlantic:



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