In October 1994 then US Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote his old friend and now boss, Bill Clinton, a letter with an urgent warning. “We’re in danger of losing Congress” he said. “Polls show that the voters who are most alienated from the administration are adults without college degrees, whose incomes have dropped the most. Many are (so-called) “Reagan Democrats,” who were slowest to rally to you in 1992, are still distrustful of government, and are most likely to desert the Democrats this November.”  His warning fell on deaf ears and thirty years later those disaffected American voters turned in droves to Donald Trump. Now Robert Reich has traced how the Democrats lost the working class in his memoir. 

• Guest: Robert B. Reich former Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, author of ‘Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America’,  published by Penguin Australia. 
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer