Source: Judith Stein, Jacobin, June 20, 2016
A labor historian debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right. …. Contrary to today’s liberals, Stein argues that it wasn’t the racism of white workers that forced the Democratic Party to the right on economics. It was powerful political and business elites, who chose to abandon organized labor and turn the Party of Roosevelt into the Party of Clinton….