Benjamin Looker
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Benjamin Looker is an associate professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University, and author of the book A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press).
How Republicans Stopped Talking About ‘Neighborhood,’ And Why Democrats Should Make That Term Their Own
Back in the Reagan era, Republicans made “neighborhood” a key component of their political vocabulary. But in Trump’s bizarrely dystopian rendering of cities, meaningful place-based ties either don’t exist or don’t matter. Democrats can take the term back, making it the centerpiece of a fresh progressive vision.