John Sides (@johnmsides), professor of political science at George Washington University and co-author of Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America, joins us.
On today’s show: Andrew Gillum talks Florida recount…in 2002 documentary.
John Sides (@johnmsides), professor of political science at George Washington University, joins us to discuss his new book, Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America. For this book, Sides researched voters’ beliefs about how much the Democratic Party’s policies helped black Americans, and found they grew substantially after Obama’s 2008 election. Sides posits that Obama’s election racialized US politics in a way they had not been previously, causing race, immigration and religion to play a major role in the 2016 presidential election.
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