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Nostalgia Trap - Episode 286: How Do You Do, Fellow Working Class? w/ Erik Baker

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 7:26 p.m.

Who are \u201cthe people\u201d? Erik Baker joins us to discuss his latest piece in n+1, a review of Thomas Frank\u2019s 2020 book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism. Baker takes on Frank\u2019s New Deal nostalgia and romantic vision of a monolithic, left-leaning American working class, a set of distorted perspectives that still hold weight for a significant portion of the (extremely online) left. In this conversation, we explore what\u2019s the matter with Frank\u2019s analysis, and how to move past the ahistorical assumptions that continue to animate progressive discourse. For more on left populism and angry white dudes, check out this week's bonus episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-285-party-its-54555603