A Manual For Keeping A Democracy

Before Bernie Sanders or AOC, a man named Michael Harrington tried to market socialism to the American public. Tens of millions of Americans were poor, miserable, in body and in spirit. On NPR's Through Line, how the founder of the DSA created a modern political movement. Listen to Throughline in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air.

I'm Terry Gross. My guest Joyce Fance is worried about whether American democracy is sturdy enough to withstand what she describes as the anti democratic moves that President Donald Trump and his administration have spewed out with overwhelming force and velocity. In her new book she writes about how to save the Republic and what we can accomplish in the future if we renew our commitment to democracy. For people who are wondering, But what can I do?

She has suggestions. Her new bestselling book is titled Giving Up is Unforgivable, a manual for keeping a democracy. You may know Vance as a longtime legal analyst for MSNBC, which has been rebranded as MS Now. After twenty five years as a career federal prosecutor, she was appointed by President Obama as the U.S.

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