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How to fix the Democrats branding problem: Abundance March 11, 2025 1:15 pm BuckGalaxy

May I Have Some More? How two stars of the wonk left are making abundance the new Democratic buzzword.

This article is a fairly short but good read. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have written a political platform that aims to provide the policies that Democrats want to give people with less of the bureaucracy they have created which stifles those policies.

The book’s core lesson, convincingly delivered, is that liberals ought to make it easier to do the things they want to do. “What is scarce that should be abundant?” Klein and Thompson write. “What is hard to build that should be easy?” Identifying the goals is often difficult; putting them into practice shouldn’t be. This will alienate some constituencies and lead to some embarrassing mistakes. But the result will be, well, results. Imagine if, in three years, voters could look to New York, California, or Massachusetts and say with pride: This is what democracy looks like

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