Abundance is the title of the book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson which has been making some waves this year. The gist of the book is that if Democrats want to recover from recent failures, especially with the working class, they need to demonstrate they can actually get things done. And lately it seems clear Democrats can’t get things done, even things they claim to want to do even in state where they have complete top-to-bottom control. Here’s how Derek Thompson described the theme of the book during an interview last month.
Who’s standing in the way of progress? Sometimes, it’s just the federal government, and I think it’s sometimes the federal government, in terms of the way that a lot of these policies that seem to be policies that would forward progressive ends end up stymieing progressive ends. There’s an incredible echo of that story…
