Audio track from the new video, "Red, White & Royal Blue: A Historian's Analysis -- pt. 4: The Political Ideology of RWRB"--

Intro: Why the Politics of RWRB? – 0:00:30

Sec. 1: Idealism vs. Realism – 0:16:21

Sec. 2: The Hidden Agenda – what is left out of RWRB – 0:52:29

Sec. 3: The Trade Wars – 1:28:25

Sec. 4: The Elusive Democratic Majority – 1:40:09

Conclusions: Power & Pride – 1:47:45

We examine Red, White & Royal Blue as a window into the ideology of the Democratic Party and the liberal middle class in the early 21st Century, including its attraction to free trade, the Sun Belt, and particularly Texas, as symbols of the so-called “Emerging Democratic Majority” that would supposedly rule the rest of the century. We question the film’s basic opposition between idealism and realism and all of the implicit value judgments that it carries, and finally consider how the film excludes or avoids discussion of class and material issues, through a comparison with the 2014 British film “Pride.”

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