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Democratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here.

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1:16.9

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

1:21.8

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:33.8

The dealignment of working class voters away from the Democratic Party toward either full-scale alienation or to the Maga Far Right has become a multiracial phenomenon.

1:39.2

This should be devastating news for the stewards of the Democratic Party.

1:47.1

But instead, many in their leadership are doing everything possible to avoid learning anything from this defeat.

1:52.8

Here at the dig, however, we're going to try to learn everything we can from this election so that we on the left can figure out what we need to do to move forward, build power, defeat the far right, and win.

2:00.5

That conversation starts today with

2:03.6

Kiena Yamada Taylor. I'll be continuing this analysis with others in the coming months, including

2:08.3

Richard Seymour, the author of the new book, Disaster Nationalism, the Downfall of Liberal Civilization.

2:15.2

I really think understanding how nationalism, a nationalism that's certainly

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