Episode 5: What's the Matter With Liberals?

Danny targets Thomas Frank's thesis that voters vote against their economic interest after reading Democracy for Realist. After the 2016 election, many liberal pundits struggle to understand why working-class voters in America vote against their economic interest. Professors Achen and Bartels respond, in the book Democracy for Realists, that most voters vote on social identity, not ideas or ideology. At the very end of the episode, Danny discusses the strongest voter predictor for Donald Trump in 2016 (it wasn't income or race).   Music: "Dub Kong" by CaballoFrom the Free Music ArchivesCC BY NC