On the November 10th edition of Your Call, we discuss lessons of 2016 for progressives in electoral politics.
With a Trump Presidency and Republican control in both the House and Senate, liberals in Washington will be marginal to an extent they haven't been since the 1920s. What should people on the left who want to win elections learn from what just happened? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin, and you.
Guests:
Ian Haney López, chaired professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Dog Whistle Politics, How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Thomas J. Sugrue, professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU and author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Web Resources:
Dog Whistle Politics, How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
The Guardian: Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there
Washington Post: How Donald Trump did it, in 5 images
Bloomberg: Inside the Trump Bunker with Days to go
New York: In Hindsight, Trump’s Best Campaign Strategy Might Have Been to Not Campaign at All
The Washington Post: It’s not chaos. It’s Trump’s campaign strategy.
