Tomorrow and every Friday in April at 2pm ET we will be presenting our big picture look at the success of America's center-left over past generation of US politics
Next Tuesday at 1pm ET we host two dear friends @KennethBaer@AndreiCherny for a look back at their journey with their influential intellectual journal, Democracy (@DemJournal).
NYT just called it among most influential pubs of Biden era (2/x).
Peeps, to help celebrate/promote the American Jobs Plan, we've rebooted our big presentation about how the two parties have handled the US economy over past 30+ years.
We will be showing it every Fri in April - come watch! Will leave you uplifted (1/x). ndn.org/WithDemocrats
"The economy does better—far better—when we have Democratic presidents. In terms of job creation, median income, health care, and yep, even the stock market, the economy does better—the American people do better—under Democratic presidents" - @mtomasky
At what point do prominent lawyers and elected officials start demanding an apology from Chief Justice Roberts and a reconsideration of his gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013?
There is a lot of good data out there about what's happening at the border right if people want to look for it.
What follows is a short thread linking to data from @pewresearch. (1/x).
"The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, the tenth consecutive month of increased apprehensions and a return to levels last seen in mid-2019."
If border apprehensions remain at 100k a month this year for the whole year, 2021 would be an average year in the years of heavy migrant flows, the mid 1980s through 2007 or so.
This is not new, and we have far more border agents today (3/x).
If proto MAGA/right wing Republicans had not blocked the three big efforts to pass bi-partisan immigration reform in 2006, 2007 and 2013 the Biden Administration would have far more capacity to manage the challenges of Central American migration to the US.
The big messes Biden is dealing with - the economy, COVID, migrant flows from Central America, epic cyber hacks, Russian belligerence, enormous deficits, incoherent trade policy, etc - have all been made far far worse by years of GOP policy nihilism and recklessness.
Don’t think people realize there are no GOP alternatives to what Biden is trying to do - there is no GOP plan to defeat COVID, reboot the economy, manage the deficit, create a regional solution to the migrant flows, climate, infrastructure on and on.
Dems offered a carbon tax in 1993, immigration reform in 2005, infrastructure forever ago, universal coverage been debated for decades.....abuse of the filibuster has contributed to GOP becoming nihilistic, not connected to governing. It's a recipe for American decline.
Behind this generation long GOP abandonment of responsibility/virtue is McConnell, a deeply venal, corrupt man. He's the chief architect of the GOP's descent. Thru the abuse of the filibuster he invented a place for Rs to go which didn't include governing.
DC chose to vaccinate essential workers who live in MD, VA but work in DC. It's a defensible strategy, but the practical impact has been to short DC residents.
Again, goal now is for @MayorBowser to make clear how we catch up. Status quo unacceptable.