The Left’s new ‘Abundance Agenda’ is a farce

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The Left’s new ‘Abundance Agenda’ is a farce

Still stinging from their 2024 defeat, Democrats are sampling new messages in an attempt to win back lost voters. One prominent effort is the “abundance agenda,” promoted by the likes of New York Times columnist Ezra Klein and the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson. The pair decries sclerotic public projects, cost overruns, infrastructure delays, the housing crisis, and other examples of bureaucratic mismanagement, calling for the left to embrace a more …

“Abundance” Is How Dems Lose To Trump

Last week, Abundance co-author Ezra Klein went viral on social media. In a widely shared video clip from Jon Stewart’s podcast, Klein described the maddeningly bureaucratic process for deploying rural broadband funding under the Biden administration’s bipartisan infrastructure bill — a procedure so cumbersome that barely any of the entities seeking these grants have even finished the application process, years after the bill’s passage. The anecd…

Liberals’ ‘Abundance’ Discourse Is Good for Trump and Musk — and Bad For Dems

Ezra Klein’s new book, “Abundance,” and an oligarch-funded movement aims to kill off the Democratic Party’s populist uprising.

Can “Abundance” Beat Trumpism? - Falls Church News

We are proud of Mayor Letty Hardi and Councilmember Justine Underhill for their whirlwind trip to San Francisco last week to participate as elected officials in an event hosted by what we believe is called the “Abundance Alliance.” Readers can check out our Page One article about this to get the drift of what it was all about, and, from our point of view, what is definitely promising and necessary about it. This time, we credit The Washington Po…

Can An Abundance Agenda Rescue Democrats?

This week I’m thrilled to welcome Derek Thompson to the show. Derek is a staff writer at The Atlantic, the host of the Plain English podcast, and, as I’m sure many of you have heard, the author of Abundance with Ezra Klein. Wasting no time, we jump right into Derek’s vision of an abundance agenda. Why has the center-left been so slow to embrace these ideas? How can we effectively match priorities with policy? Can abundance appeal to moderates an…