Matt Stoller on "How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul"

On this episode of Luscious Lefties we talk to Matt Stoller of the Open Markets Institute about his Atlantic piece How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul.

We cap off our conversation with the question will the Democrats be the party of Hamilton the Musical, the party of Hamilton the Banker or the party of Jefferson.

One quote from his excellent piece encapsulates the image of a Democratic party whose ideals had changed dramatically, becoming pro-bank and pro-business.

...new members were antiwar, not necessarily anti-bank. “Our generation did not know the Depression,” then-Representative Paul Tsongas said. “The populism of the 1930s doesn’t really apply to the 1970s,” argued Pete Stark, a California member who launched his political career by affixing a giant peace sign onto the roof of the bank he owned.

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