Lily Geismer is professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality and Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, as well as the coeditor of Shaped by The State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. With Geraldo Cadava, Brent Cebul, and N.D.B Connolly, she is a coeditor of the new political history series America Reframed, published by the University of Chicago Press.