Complacency is always a problem when a party strings together successful campaigns, although 2016 is not hibernating in the liberal sensibility any time soon. The greater issue for liberals--and more so for populist progressives--is that as the Democratic Party draws off suburban voters, it’s electorate is moving toward the center.
What is Medicare For All, exactly? Even Democratic voters are confused on this point, and advocates haven’t offered much in terms of what it would look like programmatically or how it will be financed. In a country that has no consensus that health care is a right, progressives have not been able to sell M4A even during a botched response to a pandemic. Why is that? There needs to be a lot of self-study before we can expect politicians to talk about M4A.
Complacency is always a problem when a party strings together successful campaigns, although 2016 is not hibernating in the liberal sensibility any time soon. The greater issue for liberals--and more so for populist progressives--is that as the Democratic Party draws off suburban voters, it’s electorate is moving toward the center.
What is Medicare For All, exactly? Even Democratic voters are confused on this point, and advocates haven’t offered much in terms of what it would look like programmatically or how it will be financed. In a country that has no consensus that health care is a right, progressives have not been able to sell M4A even during a botched response to a pandemic. Why is that? There needs to be a lot of self-study before we can expect politicians to talk about M4A.