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ryan cooper

1 month ago

ryan cooper
1 month ago

good piece from @jeffhauser.bsky.social. it is maddening that so much discourse ignores that Kamala Harris ran precisely the campaign the "popularist" crowd wanted prospect.org/politics/202...

WelcomeFest Wants Politicians ...

WelcomeFest Wants Politicians Who Choose to Believe in Nothing

At centrism’s largest gathering, what was offered as the best path forward for Democrats is what sank their 2024 chances.

^{Jeff Hauser (The American Prospect)}

in reply to ryan cooper

ryan cooper

in reply to ryan cooper 1 month ago

polling is all that matters, except when my agenda polls worse than taxing the rich, in which case the result can be dismissed out of hand

THERE WAS ONE TOPIC WHERE WelcomeFest attendees did not adhere to a popularist vision. At one point, an audience member asked Auchincloss about polling indicating that the “abundance agenda,” the policy vision in Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s utopian airport book Abundance, polls far worse than economic-populist messaging. Auchincloss laughed it off. “It’s what happens when you test an economic textbook for the Democratic Party against a romance novel,” he said.

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this is just obviously true. the point is to put tons of donor money behind a liberal-coded agenda that tacitly rules out taxing the rich, attacking corporations, or building out the welfare state www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/06/09/a...