Timothy Shenk on ‘Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Larry is joined by writer and historian Timothy Shenk to discuss his newest book, ‘Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics’. They begin their conversation by talking about why they think the Democrats failed with their messaging in the 2024 election and what the rise of Trumpism means about American culture today. Next, Shenk shares the historic and societal reasons he was inspired to write his book, which tells the story of modern Democratic ideology through the lens of highly influential political thinkers like Stan Greenburg (19:23). They then look at historical figures like George Wallace and Eugene McCarthy to see how their vision of populism led to the rise of politicians like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Barack Obama (24:50). After the break, Larry and Tim debate what the Democrats can do to reconnect to the working and lower classes and examine which major political party is best positioned for success going forward (52:05). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Timothy Shenk Producer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.6	Well, you know, we got a lot to unpack with this election, you know, so much to unpack. And I thought who better to do it than he's a historian. It's a writer. It's assistant professor at George Washington University. But he wrote this real fascinating book. It's called Left Adrift. What happened to liberal politics? It's a WTF type book. And it's a real interesting read, but I wanted to
1:32.5	have them on the show and just kind of unpack this whole thing. So Timothy Shank, welcome to Black
1:36.6	on the Air. How's it going? Thanks so much for having me. I mean, I'm good. Country, maybe not so much,
1:41.1	but I'm doing fine. Well, it's so great to have you here uh I really enjoyed
1:46.6	reading a book it's really dense it's definitely for you know political junkie types you know for sure
1:52.4	you know if you want to get in there but there's a lot of good a lot of good stuff just to chew on
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