Researcher Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute outlines West Virginia’s political shift from blue to red through the history of coal mining and discusses why the Left can’t win without rural and working-class voters. Matt Bruenig explains the pandemic baby boom in the Nordic countries, and Jen Pan discusses a surprising increase in the number of self-identified Republicans in the US.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from January 19, 2022 with Jen Pan hosting.

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Jacobin Show: Why the Left Can't Win Without West Virginia w/ Ted Boettner