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Post Election Day Therapy with Anand Giridharadas

Post Election Day Therapy with Anand Giridharadas

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney


Post Election Day Therapy with Anand Giridharadas

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Nov 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Join us this week for an All Ears rapid response to Election Day 2020! Awash in uncertainty the morning after election day, Abby talks with Anand Giridharadas, the journalist whose unsparing criticisms of the liberal establishment have themselves made headlines. Abby and Anand consider Trump’s popularity with voters and why it’s such a bitter pill for liberals to swallow. They talk about how neoliberalism has put mainstream Democratic leaders at risk of losing blue collar workers. Anand says Joe Biden’s two political personas help explain how the party has lost credibility. There is “Scranton Joe” (the small town, working class defender of the little guy) and “Delaware Joe” (the corporate-friendly elite catering to powerful donor constituents). And, although toxic masculinity as modeled by Trump still holds strong, Anand does express hope about how the needle has moved on race, leaving Abby a bit more optimistic than when the conversation started.Find Anand on Twitter @anandwritesSign up Anand's newsletter, The.Ink EPISODE LINKSThe Sazerac (Cocktail recipe via Bon Appetit)Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand GiridharadasDemocrats And Neoliberalism Vox 6/11/19Clinton Says Era Of Big Government Is 'over' In 1996 State Of The Union The Washington Post 1/22/14The Burden Of A 40-year Career: Some Of Joe Biden’s Record Doesn’t Age Well LA Times 3/18/19How Delaware Thrives As A Corporate Tax Haven New York Times 7/7/12
Released:
Nov 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.