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1/ Today at @theprospect we are releasing my feature for the next print issue on the Biden campaign. The promise and the peril. The opportunity and the fear. Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Biden. I spent a couple months reporting this one out.
prospect.org/politics/dr-je…
I talked to people inside the Biden campaign & those who have been in discussions with them. There's a path for a Biden administration where it replays Clinton/Obama cautious triangulation, and a real path where the moment forces decisive action prospect.org/politics/dr-je…
Jacob Hacker also weighed in on the importance of personnel and agenda-setting in getting a bold response in a post-pandemic presidency prospect.org/politics/progr…
And Bob Kuttner did a deep dive into the personnel machinations we're seeing right now, which are often contradictory and at cross purposes. There's a trade task force made up of neoliberals that the campaign denies the existence of, for example prospect.org/economy/joe-bi…
One of the things I tried to do in my story was capture the history of the Progressive Era and the New Deal and how broad public anger forced the political system to respond. @chris_w_shaw's book was invaluable: prospect.org/politics/dr-je…
The analogue to that today is unfolding right now and will likely lead to a decade of unparalleled pain that the political system ignores at its peril. prospect.org/politics/dr-je…
All of these stories can be found at our Joe Biden tag on the site. We're trying to wrestle with the crisis moment and its effect on politics and power. prospect.org/topics/joe-bid…
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