Let's name what is needed. A very high top income tax rate and a strong graduated income tax that limits allowable deductions. No cap on Social Security taxes for individuals and corporations. That keeps SS solvent. Universal health care and single payer system. You can't have a competitive market when their is high inelastic demand. The present health care system is inefficient and extractive. A strong EPA with power to limit poisons and carbon emissions. Trump's EPA enables pollution always. Support National Parks and other public lands. Forgive student loans and increase support for education from pre-school to post-graduate. Our present system basically benefits banks. Develop a sensible immigration system that is clear, easy to comply with, and recognizes the value of needed labor in a number of fields. Court reform is necessary, with term limits and age limits in place. Perhaps first, campaign finance reform, eliminating corporate funding, limiting contribution (including self-financing), and reducing the endless cycle of campaigning so politicians can actually work for us instead of constantly panhandling. Support candidates who come close to supporting this agenda. Most don't.
Screw them and their billionaire-funded million-dollar-a-year think tank. It's the same old BS - anything but addressing the real issue. How is the "Contract" project coming? I saw that AOC is planning a run for either the Senate or President in 2028. And that Bernie has been supporting young candidates like Mamdani and Platner. Is a Progressive movement forming? How can I help give it a push?
Great piece, Corbin. This 71 year old boomer couldn’t agree more - right down the line. I love that you cited the Arsenal of Democracy. Yes we’ve done great things to fight fascism before - and it’s time to do it again. Let’s get to it!
I agree with Corbin Trent that “Republican light” Democrats like Clinton, Newsom and the like cannot save our country much less our own party. I believe we need someone like FDR at this juncture. The only candidate I have heard that sounds like that is Governor Pritzker of Illinois. Like FDR, he is from old money but rejects the prevailing ethos of the very rich and sounds genuinely angry with it and der tRumpf. I think he understands what the working people and what’s left of the middle class need. We need radical change. We need to have the very rich pay their share, we need to take the middlemen out of health insurance, we need to tax the transfer of great wealth between generations in order to pay for the infrastructure upgrades so badly needed and for real education reforms, not to mention to pay down tRumpf’s enormous debts. We need to be able to invest in rural hospitals, not close them down. We need to invest in high speed rail and we need to regulate the many industries that are becoming increasingly monopolistic or oligaristic. CEO pay over 1000% of workers? Tax it higher after it hits a threshold, say 300 or 500%? We have to stop the flow of wealth into an increasingly smaller percentage of our population at the top. We need to take care of our seniors, our youth, our veterans, our mentally ill, our addicted, our working families, and our disabled. In short we need to take care of everyone in our society. We also need to be truly “Christian” by again welcoming immigrants and refuge seekers and helping them to integrate into our society, not rounding them up and putting them into concentration camps for months before we ship them off.
You have perhaps hit the nail on the head. It is too easy to be anti-Trump: he is a despicably immoral person who has taken advantage of a broken political system. So we bitch and complain (as we should) but NO ONE offers any solutions. “We have to get rid of Trump!!!” Duh but then what? And you are right that relying on a party that has a 25% approval rating ain’t gonna cut it. As one who is outside looking in, one thing is obvious: we have to MAAA. Anything else will just be a hamster wheel to nowhere.
I worked 2 Bernie campaigns— and was a convention delegate in 2016– Bernie had the majority of votes — but the neoliberal superdelegates trashed his candidacy, ignoring the voices of we the people. In 2020 Obama( for whom I ran 2 campaigns in rural FL and won) gathered the dem candidates together to give Biden the monopoly in delegate votes— even while Bernie was winning the popular vote.
The neoliberals handed Trump to us on a platter, gave us Biden who continued funding the genocide in Israel, and abandoned the chance to challenge the (really rigged by Musk & party)2024 election with hand recounts in swing states— Harris would have won….What did the neoliberal Dems do?
Crickets. And again gave us Trump.2 — even worse than before.
We MUST support the New Wave of Progressives in Congress— and vote out the old neoliberal guard…
Bernie’s rallies across the country are dismantling the MAGA base— we need to focus on welcoming them to a true return to an inclusive, diverse Democracy that will benefit all, and restore the Federal infrastructure which our taxes pay for— that will return our country to one OF THE PEOPLE
Yes!! This is OUR country that WE built. What irks me is that every corporation in this country uses the infrastructure that WE built. (Roads, bridges, railways, sea ports, airports), Yet they don’t pay taxes. They use OUR infrastructure for free, while we continue to maintain with OUR taxes…
It’s not just Jentleson and his cohort of craven opportunists. The setup for continuity of the current Dem power structure runs through the entire media (social or “mainstream”) ecosystem.
Not entirely sure I understand the “Arsenal of Democracy” concept, but allow me to throw basic MMT into the conversation.
Demand:
“We want universal healthcare, education, etc. and a reduction in wealth inequality.”
Traditional Dem Response:
“We can’t afford any of that, though we’ll pass a few performative measures that nibble around the edges of those issues.”
MMT response:
“We will prioritize those issues in response to the needs of our population. We will turn on the magic money machine and generate the funding necessary for worthwhile programs.”
Traditional Dem and GOP response:
“But that will increase the money supply and henceforth inflation”
MMT response:
“We will control inflation by removing an equivalent (or greater) amount of money from the system via taxation. The amount and route of dollars removed from the system will also address that whole ‘wealth inequality’ concern.”
Traditional Dem and GOP response:
“But then our billionaires will leave and take their wealth with them!”
MMT response:
“Unlikely, especially because we still control access to dollars globally and there’s only so many hard assets that they can carry with them, because we can control that loophole too.
The rich will be able to enjoy the true immigrant experience and show up at their new country with little more than a suitcase and a completely disgruntled former model.”
Response from all those who claim that we’re a nation deeply in debt and have no money to fund public programs:
“But we must tax before we can spend and perform the Pay-Go ritualistic denial of government services”
MMT response:
“Bullshit. How do you think all these corporate subsidies and bailouts get funded ? We’ve used the aforementioned practices multiple times to float the Banking industry, airlines, etc. And we will definitely use MMT to generate every bit of funds to bail out the Crypto Bros when their scam (that we’ve incorporated into every nook and cranny of our economic infrastructure) collapses.”
So… healthcare or corporate bailouts. Imma guess most people take the healthcare et al. option if they had a candidate that could articulate the MMT approach.
Also, as previously mentioned “the call is coming from inside the house” regarding supposed progressive influencers, not just Jentleson’s self serving scam. Nathan at Current Affairs had a pretty good discussion regarding the Dark Money taking over the performative Lefty Influencer World.
Informative and hilarious once they let Pakman and BTC bury themselves.
One of the big problems is that our election system is expensive. Even running for smaller offices cost a lot of money. That means that rich people have an inordinate influence on elections, and if you run on reducing the power of money, you’re going to be outspent and most likely lose.
If you combine that with the fact that elected people in powerful positions have a bigger incentive to hold on to that power than to do what is right for the majority, it slowly shifts successful politicians towards the people with money.
Hey Corbin. Yes, as a science/logic/fact-based progressive who identifies with NOTHING the neo-liberal agenda has glamorized for decades, I agree it is the 'system' of economics that Friedman instilled into business schools that has killed attempts at true democracy.
Now, go one step deeper, if not more. Economics is nothing more than contextual expressions of what human society defines as 'values.' Values allegedly make up the psychological matrix of what is necessary to be seen as human, what this animal interprets as important via Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
To whit - Physiological Needs: Basic requirements for human survival, such as food, water, and shelter.
Safety Needs: Protection from physical and emotional harm, including security and stability.
Love and Belongingness Needs: Emotional relationships, including friendships, intimacy, and family connections.
Esteem Needs: The need for self-esteem, recognition, and respect from others.
Self-Actualization Needs: The desire to achieve personal potential and self-fulfillment.
As a long-time field biologist/ecologist, I can attest to the learned facts that all animals and plants share, in some form or another, each of these 'needs.' The more these needs are met, the more harmonious and balanced the biotic framework of life is favored. Now Nature, as a holistic system of operations, has displayed each factor in the quantum field of entangled realities back into antiquity. Harmony, entropy, uncertainty, chaos, adjustments, adaptations and evolutionary behaviors always favor harmonic re-alignments that satisfy a certain consistency within quantum entanglement.
Messy might be a descriptive term, but within all-but-human life, and its real-time 'need' to exist with the reality of Schrodinger's cats, the ecology of Nature has done, forever, what humans just cannot get into sync with - valuing harmony more than disruption. Without this realization, all the horses and king's men have ZERO chance of making Humpty Dumpty anything other than a hologram caricature of showmanship and gaslighted delusion.
Yes, harmony works best when a vast majority of disparate elements cooperate in a shared union of needs/wants/lacks/excesses. This is democracy, where E Pluribus Unum is constant give and take and real-time, one-to-one mitigation of damages responsibly shared by all.
So before we can rebuild anything of value, we have to re-establish what 'value' actually means in real time, not how many billions Buffett trades to keep Friedman happy.
"It was our own elite. The ultra-rich. The centi-millionaires and billionaires and centi-billionaires. The multinational multi-trillion-dollar corporations and all their cronies. That's who did it."
THIS GROUP "THE ESTABLISHMENT" (above you mentioned) OWNS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TOO! NOT JUST THE REPUBLICANS!
All the ESTABLISHMENT "ultra-rich" want is a weak feckless Democratic Party. A Democratic Party just strong enough to help them fight off any 3rd party opposition, but not strong enough to win control. They want a Democratic party that will NEVER EVER mention a RIGGED TAX CODE, A RIGGED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, A RIGGED EDUCATION SYSTEM, A RIGGED COMMERCE & TRADE SYSTEM, A RIGGED JUDICIAL SYSTEM, A RIGGED CORPORATE SYSTEM, A RIGGED MAJOR MEDIA SYSTEM, A RIGGED IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, A RIGGED WELFARE SYSTEM, A RIGGED BANKING AND FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, and last but not least A RIGGED WALL STREET all that are RIGGED to benefit the "UltraRich" and the lazy able bodied opportunistic poor, dumping most of the costs on the Working Middle Class AMERICANS who work paycheck to paycheck.
The DEMOCRATS HAVE NO PLATFORM. Its all social issues that divide us....Exactly what the "Ultra-Rich" want!
Trent as usual you are spot on with your analysis and of course you angry. That said I have two related questions: How does your analysis differ from Bernie Sanders and a minority of progressive democrats who have been saying the same thing as you for the past decade? And why are you only trashing those democrats who deserve trashing and not propping up those Democrats like Bernie and AOC, who are the vanguard of your desired revolution?
Very much agree with your assessment, Corbin. That's precisely why the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative and 15 other groups have launched our "Beyond Resistance" campaign to put farmers, workers and rural communities at the center of the fight to beat Trump AND the almost-as-difficult task of remaking the Dems as the party of the working class. This campaign is putting forward specific policies, like the Rural New Deal, that focus on rural, small town and Rust Belt people and their needs. Would love to chat with you about this, Corbin, and anyone else who reads your substack. You can read about the Beyond Resistance campaign here: https://ruralurbanbridge.org/beyondresistance and you can reach me at anthony@ruralurbanbridge.org. Thanks. Anthony Flaccavento
I'm sorry, I wish this were true but I don't buy it. People have been saying for years that the Democrats just need to "focus on kitchen table issues" and it doesn't work. The Biden people already tried this: they went hard pro-union, pro-labor, they brought back industrial policy in a big way (CHIPS Act, IRA 2022 IIJA). None of it amounted to anything as far as support for Democrats among the working class. All those union guys like Trump because he's tough and "tells it like it is."
I agree with Teixeira https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democrats-common-sense-problem (note the date on this!) the culture war stuff matters because voters need to believe that you see the world in the same terms that they do before they will listen to any of your ideas — on the economy or anything else.
Bull. Shit. You aren’t going pro-union, pro-labor when you side with capital over workers to avert a railroad strike.
For every positive attempt Biden made to labor, he coupled it with negative ones that contributed to his demise, from completely botching the post covid legislation by decoupling BBB from the IRA to appease his buddy Manchin, which gutted BBB, to the delight of corporations, to the biggest horror of all, pulling an LBJ foreign policy horror show in Ukraine and Gaza.
The culture war stuff won’t matter when you actually fight for radical change, like Medicare For All. The Dems won’t do it because their corporate bosses would get mad.
Let's name what is needed. A very high top income tax rate and a strong graduated income tax that limits allowable deductions. No cap on Social Security taxes for individuals and corporations. That keeps SS solvent. Universal health care and single payer system. You can't have a competitive market when their is high inelastic demand. The present health care system is inefficient and extractive. A strong EPA with power to limit poisons and carbon emissions. Trump's EPA enables pollution always. Support National Parks and other public lands. Forgive student loans and increase support for education from pre-school to post-graduate. Our present system basically benefits banks. Develop a sensible immigration system that is clear, easy to comply with, and recognizes the value of needed labor in a number of fields. Court reform is necessary, with term limits and age limits in place. Perhaps first, campaign finance reform, eliminating corporate funding, limiting contribution (including self-financing), and reducing the endless cycle of campaigning so politicians can actually work for us instead of constantly panhandling. Support candidates who come close to supporting this agenda. Most don't.
Screw them and their billionaire-funded million-dollar-a-year think tank. It's the same old BS - anything but addressing the real issue. How is the "Contract" project coming? I saw that AOC is planning a run for either the Senate or President in 2028. And that Bernie has been supporting young candidates like Mamdani and Platner. Is a Progressive movement forming? How can I help give it a push?
Great piece, Corbin. This 71 year old boomer couldn’t agree more - right down the line. I love that you cited the Arsenal of Democracy. Yes we’ve done great things to fight fascism before - and it’s time to do it again. Let’s get to it!
Signed, Builder 💪
I agree with Corbin Trent that “Republican light” Democrats like Clinton, Newsom and the like cannot save our country much less our own party. I believe we need someone like FDR at this juncture. The only candidate I have heard that sounds like that is Governor Pritzker of Illinois. Like FDR, he is from old money but rejects the prevailing ethos of the very rich and sounds genuinely angry with it and der tRumpf. I think he understands what the working people and what’s left of the middle class need. We need radical change. We need to have the very rich pay their share, we need to take the middlemen out of health insurance, we need to tax the transfer of great wealth between generations in order to pay for the infrastructure upgrades so badly needed and for real education reforms, not to mention to pay down tRumpf’s enormous debts. We need to be able to invest in rural hospitals, not close them down. We need to invest in high speed rail and we need to regulate the many industries that are becoming increasingly monopolistic or oligaristic. CEO pay over 1000% of workers? Tax it higher after it hits a threshold, say 300 or 500%? We have to stop the flow of wealth into an increasingly smaller percentage of our population at the top. We need to take care of our seniors, our youth, our veterans, our mentally ill, our addicted, our working families, and our disabled. In short we need to take care of everyone in our society. We also need to be truly “Christian” by again welcoming immigrants and refuge seekers and helping them to integrate into our society, not rounding them up and putting them into concentration camps for months before we ship them off.
Who is funding Pritzker? That to me is the tell and the determining factor. Follow the money.
You have perhaps hit the nail on the head. It is too easy to be anti-Trump: he is a despicably immoral person who has taken advantage of a broken political system. So we bitch and complain (as we should) but NO ONE offers any solutions. “We have to get rid of Trump!!!” Duh but then what? And you are right that relying on a party that has a 25% approval rating ain’t gonna cut it. As one who is outside looking in, one thing is obvious: we have to MAAA. Anything else will just be a hamster wheel to nowhere.
I worked 2 Bernie campaigns— and was a convention delegate in 2016– Bernie had the majority of votes — but the neoliberal superdelegates trashed his candidacy, ignoring the voices of we the people. In 2020 Obama( for whom I ran 2 campaigns in rural FL and won) gathered the dem candidates together to give Biden the monopoly in delegate votes— even while Bernie was winning the popular vote.
The neoliberals handed Trump to us on a platter, gave us Biden who continued funding the genocide in Israel, and abandoned the chance to challenge the (really rigged by Musk & party)2024 election with hand recounts in swing states— Harris would have won….What did the neoliberal Dems do?
Crickets. And again gave us Trump.2 — even worse than before.
We MUST support the New Wave of Progressives in Congress— and vote out the old neoliberal guard…
Bernie’s rallies across the country are dismantling the MAGA base— we need to focus on welcoming them to a true return to an inclusive, diverse Democracy that will benefit all, and restore the Federal infrastructure which our taxes pay for— that will return our country to one OF THE PEOPLE
BY THE PEOPLE
FOR THE PEOPLE!
Amen to that!
Yes!! This is OUR country that WE built. What irks me is that every corporation in this country uses the infrastructure that WE built. (Roads, bridges, railways, sea ports, airports), Yet they don’t pay taxes. They use OUR infrastructure for free, while we continue to maintain with OUR taxes…
I agree... however, tell us how any regular democrat can have any impact to make a change.
It’s not just Jentleson and his cohort of craven opportunists. The setup for continuity of the current Dem power structure runs through the entire media (social or “mainstream”) ecosystem.
Not entirely sure I understand the “Arsenal of Democracy” concept, but allow me to throw basic MMT into the conversation.
Demand:
“We want universal healthcare, education, etc. and a reduction in wealth inequality.”
Traditional Dem Response:
“We can’t afford any of that, though we’ll pass a few performative measures that nibble around the edges of those issues.”
MMT response:
“We will prioritize those issues in response to the needs of our population. We will turn on the magic money machine and generate the funding necessary for worthwhile programs.”
Traditional Dem and GOP response:
“But that will increase the money supply and henceforth inflation”
MMT response:
“We will control inflation by removing an equivalent (or greater) amount of money from the system via taxation. The amount and route of dollars removed from the system will also address that whole ‘wealth inequality’ concern.”
Traditional Dem and GOP response:
“But then our billionaires will leave and take their wealth with them!”
MMT response:
“Unlikely, especially because we still control access to dollars globally and there’s only so many hard assets that they can carry with them, because we can control that loophole too.
The rich will be able to enjoy the true immigrant experience and show up at their new country with little more than a suitcase and a completely disgruntled former model.”
Response from all those who claim that we’re a nation deeply in debt and have no money to fund public programs:
“But we must tax before we can spend and perform the Pay-Go ritualistic denial of government services”
MMT response:
“Bullshit. How do you think all these corporate subsidies and bailouts get funded ? We’ve used the aforementioned practices multiple times to float the Banking industry, airlines, etc. And we will definitely use MMT to generate every bit of funds to bail out the Crypto Bros when their scam (that we’ve incorporated into every nook and cranny of our economic infrastructure) collapses.”
So… healthcare or corporate bailouts. Imma guess most people take the healthcare et al. option if they had a candidate that could articulate the MMT approach.
Also, as previously mentioned “the call is coming from inside the house” regarding supposed progressive influencers, not just Jentleson’s self serving scam. Nathan at Current Affairs had a pretty good discussion regarding the Dark Money taking over the performative Lefty Influencer World.
Informative and hilarious once they let Pakman and BTC bury themselves.
Best to all
https://youtu.be/-qENvZBa-Ao?si=kdBJgKCIlCL7pTon
One of the big problems is that our election system is expensive. Even running for smaller offices cost a lot of money. That means that rich people have an inordinate influence on elections, and if you run on reducing the power of money, you’re going to be outspent and most likely lose.
If you combine that with the fact that elected people in powerful positions have a bigger incentive to hold on to that power than to do what is right for the majority, it slowly shifts successful politicians towards the people with money.
Not an easy problem to solve.
Hey Corbin. Yes, as a science/logic/fact-based progressive who identifies with NOTHING the neo-liberal agenda has glamorized for decades, I agree it is the 'system' of economics that Friedman instilled into business schools that has killed attempts at true democracy.
Now, go one step deeper, if not more. Economics is nothing more than contextual expressions of what human society defines as 'values.' Values allegedly make up the psychological matrix of what is necessary to be seen as human, what this animal interprets as important via Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
To whit - Physiological Needs: Basic requirements for human survival, such as food, water, and shelter.
Safety Needs: Protection from physical and emotional harm, including security and stability.
Love and Belongingness Needs: Emotional relationships, including friendships, intimacy, and family connections.
Esteem Needs: The need for self-esteem, recognition, and respect from others.
Self-Actualization Needs: The desire to achieve personal potential and self-fulfillment.
As a long-time field biologist/ecologist, I can attest to the learned facts that all animals and plants share, in some form or another, each of these 'needs.' The more these needs are met, the more harmonious and balanced the biotic framework of life is favored. Now Nature, as a holistic system of operations, has displayed each factor in the quantum field of entangled realities back into antiquity. Harmony, entropy, uncertainty, chaos, adjustments, adaptations and evolutionary behaviors always favor harmonic re-alignments that satisfy a certain consistency within quantum entanglement.
Messy might be a descriptive term, but within all-but-human life, and its real-time 'need' to exist with the reality of Schrodinger's cats, the ecology of Nature has done, forever, what humans just cannot get into sync with - valuing harmony more than disruption. Without this realization, all the horses and king's men have ZERO chance of making Humpty Dumpty anything other than a hologram caricature of showmanship and gaslighted delusion.
Yes, harmony works best when a vast majority of disparate elements cooperate in a shared union of needs/wants/lacks/excesses. This is democracy, where E Pluribus Unum is constant give and take and real-time, one-to-one mitigation of damages responsibly shared by all.
So before we can rebuild anything of value, we have to re-establish what 'value' actually means in real time, not how many billions Buffett trades to keep Friedman happy.
"It was our own elite. The ultra-rich. The centi-millionaires and billionaires and centi-billionaires. The multinational multi-trillion-dollar corporations and all their cronies. That's who did it."
THIS GROUP "THE ESTABLISHMENT" (above you mentioned) OWNS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TOO! NOT JUST THE REPUBLICANS!
All the ESTABLISHMENT "ultra-rich" want is a weak feckless Democratic Party. A Democratic Party just strong enough to help them fight off any 3rd party opposition, but not strong enough to win control. They want a Democratic party that will NEVER EVER mention a RIGGED TAX CODE, A RIGGED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, A RIGGED EDUCATION SYSTEM, A RIGGED COMMERCE & TRADE SYSTEM, A RIGGED JUDICIAL SYSTEM, A RIGGED CORPORATE SYSTEM, A RIGGED MAJOR MEDIA SYSTEM, A RIGGED IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, A RIGGED WELFARE SYSTEM, A RIGGED BANKING AND FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, and last but not least A RIGGED WALL STREET all that are RIGGED to benefit the "UltraRich" and the lazy able bodied opportunistic poor, dumping most of the costs on the Working Middle Class AMERICANS who work paycheck to paycheck.
The DEMOCRATS HAVE NO PLATFORM. Its all social issues that divide us....Exactly what the "Ultra-Rich" want!
THE DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT TO WIN.
Trent as usual you are spot on with your analysis and of course you angry. That said I have two related questions: How does your analysis differ from Bernie Sanders and a minority of progressive democrats who have been saying the same thing as you for the past decade? And why are you only trashing those democrats who deserve trashing and not propping up those Democrats like Bernie and AOC, who are the vanguard of your desired revolution?
Very much agree with your assessment, Corbin. That's precisely why the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative and 15 other groups have launched our "Beyond Resistance" campaign to put farmers, workers and rural communities at the center of the fight to beat Trump AND the almost-as-difficult task of remaking the Dems as the party of the working class. This campaign is putting forward specific policies, like the Rural New Deal, that focus on rural, small town and Rust Belt people and their needs. Would love to chat with you about this, Corbin, and anyone else who reads your substack. You can read about the Beyond Resistance campaign here: https://ruralurbanbridge.org/beyondresistance and you can reach me at anthony@ruralurbanbridge.org. Thanks. Anthony Flaccavento
I'm sorry, I wish this were true but I don't buy it. People have been saying for years that the Democrats just need to "focus on kitchen table issues" and it doesn't work. The Biden people already tried this: they went hard pro-union, pro-labor, they brought back industrial policy in a big way (CHIPS Act, IRA 2022 IIJA). None of it amounted to anything as far as support for Democrats among the working class. All those union guys like Trump because he's tough and "tells it like it is."
I agree with Teixeira https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democrats-common-sense-problem (note the date on this!) the culture war stuff matters because voters need to believe that you see the world in the same terms that they do before they will listen to any of your ideas — on the economy or anything else.
Bull. Shit. You aren’t going pro-union, pro-labor when you side with capital over workers to avert a railroad strike.
For every positive attempt Biden made to labor, he coupled it with negative ones that contributed to his demise, from completely botching the post covid legislation by decoupling BBB from the IRA to appease his buddy Manchin, which gutted BBB, to the delight of corporations, to the biggest horror of all, pulling an LBJ foreign policy horror show in Ukraine and Gaza.
The culture war stuff won’t matter when you actually fight for radical change, like Medicare For All. The Dems won’t do it because their corporate bosses would get mad.
Cowards.