Steve talks about the prospects for the new California Green party with social historian Morgan Kausser of the California Institute of Technology. Kausser says there hasn’t been a truly successful alternative party in the US since the Republicans in the 1850’s, and that the California Greens face a tough challenge, whether they pursue a narrow environmental agenda or a broader social one.
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