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David Leonhardt

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https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1191383176939294723

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1191383176939294723

Some highly progressive ideas are very popular (wealth tax, higher minimum wage, universal Medicare buy-in, crackdown on drug prices and antitrust...)

The mistake that some Dems have made is thinking *all* progressive ideas are popular. They need to distinguish.

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1191383176939294723

Progressive ideas that aren’t popular include:
- Mandatory Medicare
- border decriminalization
- fracking bans
- elimination of tax breaks for churches

Dems have hurt themselves by pushing these. And it’s not any one of them. It’s the larger message.

For more ... nytimes.com/2019/09/08/opi…

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So, I ran across a retweet of the below tweet and it immediately raised flags. Puffing up a witness has a reason, so decided to go look for the documentation behind it, since it had a direct quote. Didn't take long - few minutes and NPR coughed it up (will link at the end)./1

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