Hillary's Dilemma
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the mixed legacy of ’90s-style liberalism and the challenge of the new progressivism.
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| 1:11.6 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.4 | It's Friday, April 15th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:22.9 | In Philadelphia last week, Bill Clinton was speaking in support of Hillary when he began addressing |
| 1:27.5 | a Black Lives Matter protester about the crime bill he shepherded through Congress during his presidency. |
| 1:33.5 | We had 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals. She don't want to hear any of that. You know what |
| 1:39.2 | else you don't want to hear? Because of that bill, we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33 low in the murder rate, |
| 1:45.5 | year low murder rate, and who you think those lives were that mattered? |
| 1:50.7 | Whose lives were saved? That mattered. Ben Wallace Wells is here to discuss Hillary's legacy |
| 1:57.2 | as a 90s-era Democrat and how it's faring against the progressive surge of 2016. |
| 2:03.7 | Then, listening to Bill Clinton last week, I was thinking about after Baltimore and Ferguson, |
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