Bernie Sanders Is Facing Down Corporate Democrats on Taxes
The Democrats are poised to pass a giant, regressive tax giveaway to the wealthy by raising the SALT cap deduction. Bernie Sanders is trying to stop them.
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How the Democrats Traded the New Deal for Neoliberalism
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran for president promising to “end welfare as we know it.” This rightward turn was part of a broader attempt by the Democrats to craft a “progressive neoliberalism” — whose “progressivism” included abandoning its working-class base.
Corporate Democrats Want Tax Breaks for the Rich — Not $2,000 Survival Checks
Corporate Democrats are backing off a chance to push for a new round of $2,000 survival checks. And some of them are even floating tax breaks for the wealthy instead. We should rally against this backsliding.
Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
Democrats Are Not Talking About the Economic Issues That Most Americans Care About
In the lead-up to the midterms, Americans’ number-one issue is the economy and the squeeze they’re feeling thanks to inflation. Republicans get this and are making that squeeze their top-line message. Why aren’t Democrats?
Economic Populism Is Powerful, but Democrats’ Brand Is Toxic
Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over constituencies that have abandoned Democrats in recent decades. There’s a problem though: the Democratic brand is trash.
Democrats: The Party of American Capital
The Democratic Party has become, improbably, the preferred party of American capital. But in doing so, it’s lost more and more of its working-class base.
Jeff Weaver: Democrats Can’t Keep Clinging to the Center
Democrats focused more on courting GOP voters than younger voters in the last election, former Bernie Sanders senior staffer Jeff Weaver argues. The strategy was a disaster, damaging downballot Democrats across the country — and it could backfire even more when Trump is gone.
Actually, the Democrats Don’t Care About Identity
The Democrats like to trumpet their commitment to group representation and multicultural sensitivity. But they’re happy to throw those principles overboard if it will help them attack the Left.
Even Wall Street Shills Understand Why the Democrats Failed
A new autopsy of the Democrats’ 2020 electoral underperformance supports the Left's arguments about the weaknesses of the party’s strategies. The only surprise is where the report came from: Wall Street–funded neoliberal think tank Third Way.
Denmark’s Social Democrats Want to Move Even Further to the Right
Social Democratic prime minister Mette Frederiksen has called on the Danish right to join her government and end her reliance on the Red-Green Alliance. The center-left in Denmark is rejecting socialism and embracing allies of big business instead.
Big Pharma Is Showering Conservative House Democrats With Gushing Ads
A front group for Big Pharma is running ads backing the House Democrats who are trying to gut the party’s plan to cut drug prices.
Bad New York Democrats Might’ve Lost the Election
The New York Democratic Party’s leaders made horrible decisions that gave away seats to Republicans. We might have them to blame for right-wingers taking over the House of Representatives.
Even in Solidly Blue States, Democrats Aren’t Pursuing Serious Progressive Change
Is it really true that if the Democrats had big majorities in Congress, we’d see the sweeping change party stalwarts promise in election campaigns? Here’s a good test: look at the blue states, where Democrats govern virtually alone. It’s not a pretty picture.
Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats
Zohran Mamdani does not operate by the same logic as the Democratic Party establishment. Waleed Shahid explains five key aspects of how Mamdani has broken through.
Trump Wants Federal Agents to Invade American Cities. Democrats Aren’t Doing Much to Push Back.
Donald Trump deployed unidentified Department of Homeland Security agents to Portland, where they abducted protesters off the street into unmarked vehicles, and he wants to do the same elsewhere. House Democrats rightly say they're horrified by Trump's actions — yet are refusing to do anything substantive to stop them.
Big Pharma’s Favorite Democrats Saved the Drug Industry Half a Trillion Dollars
Corporate Democrats like Senator Kyrsten Sinema saved Big Pharma $450 billion by watering down the party’s drug pricing plan.
Nancy Pelosi Helped Drive the Democrats’ Degeneration
Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement after decades as a shrewd political operator. A genuine leader in a party that lacks them, Pelosi bears a large share of the blame for the Democrats’ embrace of bland corporate centrism.
If Democrats Don’t Cut Israel Off, They’ll Lose in November
The past two months of strong polls and good vibes for the Democrats likely won’t last if Israel starts a regional war and drags in the US. The only solution is for Joe Biden to stop sending Israel weapons.
Democrats Can’t Be Losing Because They “Moved Too Far Left” When They Aren’t Moving Left
What accounts for the Democrats’ deepening electoral malaise? You can take your pick of reasons — but the one we can be sure is wrong is the absurd claim that Joe Biden has spent his first year in office pandering to the Left.