Election 2016 Aftermath with Doug Henwood
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🗓️ 1 January 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In this Upstream Conversation we spoke with author and journalist Doug Henwood. Doug wrote a book about Hillary Clinton called My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency, which is a critique of Hillary Clinton and her policies from the left of the political spectrum. We spoke with him about the response to his book, his thoughts on the Democratic Party and the election, the economic forecast of the Trump administration, the state of the economy, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an upstream conversation with economist Doug Henwood. |
| 0:05.2 | Doug was first featured in our sharing economy episode last year and since has written a book |
| 0:12.0 | about Hillary Clinton titled My Turn, |
| 0:15.0 | which was based off of an article that he wrote in 2014 for Harper's magazine. |
| 0:21.0 | The article outlined a strong critique of Hillary Clinton and her policies from the left of the political spectrum. |
| 0:27.0 | We spoke with him after the election in his home in Brooklyn. |
| 0:32.0 | For this upstream conversation, we're going to in his home in Brooklyn. |
| 0:33.0 | For this upstream conversation, we're going to jump into where Doug begins to tell us how his |
| 0:38.5 | critiques of Hillary Clinton were received by many of the liberal pundits he was in contact with. |
| 0:44.9 | We then move quickly into a broader conversation about challenging our current economic |
| 0:49.4 | system in the political arena. I sent this email discussion list populated mostly by elite liberal pundits. |
| 1:12.0 | It's all supposed to be very secret and off the record, but I won't name any names, but you'd recognize them if I mentioned them. |
| 1:19.5 | And as soon as I said I was doing this project for Harpers, I started by asking like, okay, why do you |
| 1:25.3 | like so much about Hillary? Why do you support her? Why is she such a good candidate? No one could |
| 1:29.7 | come up with an answer. People who'd written about Hillary, these are people, many of them, |
| 1:33.6 | professional writers or political operatives of some sort. So talking about politics is their |
| 1:38.4 | bread and butter and they could not come up with an argument in her favor and |
| 1:41.6 | they got really hostile to me. |
| 1:43.4 | And then they'd say, what do you want? |
| 1:45.3 | Cruz, that's when people thought Cruz was a possibility. |
| 1:48.9 | They assumed that any critique of Hillary |
| 1:51.0 | had to be coming from the right, that you were enabling Republicans |
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