After working for The Believer and at McSweeney's as a personal assistant to writer Dave Eggers, she received her master's degree from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013, and in the years following contributed to Full Stop, n+1, and The New Inquiry.
The topics included the need for Medicare for All,[15] the importance of labor unions,[16] the need to end cash bail,[17] how to combat the rise of the far right,[18] and the need to overhaul the United States Constitution.
"[20] In an interview with The Washington Post, co-author Uetricht said they had written the book to speak to a combination of people who liked Bernie Sanders but did not consider themselves activists and those "who want to understand what at least one wing of this newly reborn socialist movement in the United States thinks".
Day also mentioned in that interview that the way they approached the book was to ensure it would be useful no matter how the then-ongoing Democratic Party primary turned out, and so when writing about their ideas had "tried to boil it down to basics".
[25] Citing Day's work, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh argued that "the left is doing everything it can to destroy the perceived integrity, the honesty, the trustworthiness of our electoral system".