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[See also (tags here also reflect content within):

"Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism"
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-223-the-empire-strikes-first-part-ii-abundance-pablum-as-counter-to-left-populism


"“Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?,” wonders Samuel Moyn in the New York Times. “The Democrats Are Finally Landing on a New Buzzword. It’s Actually Compelling,” argues Slate staff writer Henry Grabar. “Do Democrats Need to Learn How to Build?,” asks Benjamin Wallace-Wells in The New Yorker. 

For the past few months, news and editorial rooms have been abuzz with talk about a new, grand vision for the Democratic Party: abundance. Abundance, according to its media promoters—chiefly NYT’s Ezra Klein and The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson—is a political agenda that espouses the creation of more of everything we need: housing, education, jobs, and energy, to name a few examples. To accomplish this, we are told, we must aim to eliminate bureaucratic red tape that has for so long bogged down production, innovation, and capital’s innate capacity and desire to provide a better, more abundant life.

It’s an alluring promise—if suspiciously vague and devoid of class politics: obviously, doing more good things is better than doing fewer good things, right? Who can argue with this generic premise? Who wouldn’t want to support an agenda that’s effectively the Do Good Things Agenda?

Scratch the surface, however, and what one finds it isn’t just a folky, common sense treatise against red tape, but something more sinister and dishonest, something more slick and shallow. What one gets is a standard entryist strategy that begins with a so-vague-it’s-incontestable hook—illogical or corrupt regulations are bad—the quickly pivots into a Silicon Valley flattering, and often Silicon Valley funded, political agenda, a narrative designed to blame inequality and our objectively broken political system on too much regulation and “bureaucracy” rather than there being too much power in the hands of an elite few.

What one gets, in other words, is a counter to left populism. What one gets is the latest attempt to reheat neoliberalism as something fresh, innovative and able to excite the voting base.

Last week, in Part I of a two-part series we’re calling “The Empire Strikes First,” we discussed the Democrats’ post-2024 apologia, propped up by scapegoats ranging from trans people to “economic headwinds” to Harris actually being too far left.

On this episode, Part II of the series, we explore what comes next: the 2028 Democratic strategy and the so-called abundance agenda that is increasingly shaping it. We’ll examine how Democratic media influencers and policymakers use lofty, seemingly progressive rhetoric to rehabilitate and re-sell the same old neoliberal deregulation, privatization, and austerity narrative that got us here in the first place, and ensure that no left-wing movement—that could, god forbid, require a meaningful change in the party—get in their way.

Our guests are the Revolving Door Project's Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke."]]]></description>
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David Sirota, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever and a former speechwriter and senior adviser to Bernie Sanders, joins Mehdi to discuss the podcast, “Tax Revolt”, and the surprising state where the movement took off in the 1970s: California.

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Mehdi and Sirota discuss the parts of Donald Trump’s playbook that trace back to the early days of the tax revolt, the lasting impacts of a California ballot measure that has made it nearly impossible to raise taxes in the state, and whether AOC is the heir to Bernie Sanders’ movement.

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[See also:

[11 April 2025] "Are You Ready For The Tax Revolt?
As Trump’s new tax bill advances, The Lever is releasing a four-part miniseries revealing how the anti-tax movement came to dominate Washington."
https://www.levernews.com/are-you-ready-for-the-tax-revolt/

[24 April 2025] "Is The GOP’s Tax Revolt Collapsing?
The anti-tax movement has dominated American politics for 50 years — but it may finally be fraying."
https://www.levernews.com/is-the-gops-tax-revolt-collapsing/

[25 April 2025] "How Art Laffer Created The Cult Of Reaganomics
Economist Art Laffer was the intellectual backbone of every Republican tax cut, including Trump’s. Laffer’s advice: Don’t bother fighting the rich anymore, they’ve already won."
https://www.levernews.com/how-art-laffer-created-the-cult-of-reaganomics/

[16 May 2025] The Secret History Behind Trump’s Big, Beautiful Tax Bill
As Trump’s contentious tax-cut megabill moves forward, explore the untold story of how the anti-tax movement took over the country."
https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-history-behind-trumps-big-beautiful-tax-bill/

and this four-part podcast

[18 April 2025] "TAX REVOLT, Part One: The Man Who Started The War On Taxes
The leader of California’s tax revolt launched a populist revolution to limit his state’s property taxes. The movement evolved beyond his wildest dreams."
https://www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-part-one-the-man-who-started-the-war-on-taxes/

[25 April 2025] "TAX REVOLT, Part Two: Supply Side Santa Claus
How a small group of economists shaped Reagan’s tax policy and the future of the Republican party."
https://www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-part-two-supply-side-santa-claus/

[2 May 2025] "TAX REVOLT, Part Three: Voodoo Economics
A president took a stand on taxes. It radicalized the Republican Party."
https://www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-part-three-the-broken-promise-that-changed-america/

[9 May 2025] "TAX REVOLT, Part Four: The Pledgemaster
Grover Norquist made a name for himself by cancelling politicians who dared to raise taxes. Is his reign ending?"
https://www.levernews.com/tax-revolt-part-four-the-pledgemaster/ ]]]></description>
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[archived:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/automated-contempt/ ]]]></description>
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https://www.theframelab.org/destruction-of-government-by-elon-doge/
https://www.theframelab.org/surviving-the-broligarchy/
https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-thebroligarchs-plan-to-use-trump/ ]]]></description>
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I mean, really they are. I mean, if you think about the stereotype that’s being trafficked right now. They’re talking about these lazy, you know, bloated pensions that are just, you know, cheating the system. I mean, that’s the welfare queens of the 1980s. And what has been– what’s the same between the welfare queen and this image of the postal worker who doesn’t really deserve the benefits they’re getting? These old shop worn stereotypes of race and gender."]]></description>
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