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What is a Liberal Patriot? TLP's Executive Editor John Halpin explains.
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A new era dawns at The Liberal Patriot - read all about it here.
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If a politician is stridently anti-Israel, it’s a good indication they’re out of the mainstream on a host of issues.
@JoshKraushaar
on how the pro-Israel community is fighting extremism in both parties - in TLP.
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Catering to Highly Educated Whites is Disastrous for Housing Policy: Another reason Democrats need the working class
By
@RickKahlenberg
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Will the Center Hold?
Check out TLP’s review of a great new edited volume by
@YairZivan
on the foundations and future of political centrism.
Book is out tomorrow.
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Turning Down the Temperature on Extreme Claims About Extreme Weather
The first column from
@PatrickTBrown31
of
@TheBTI
!
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This week's TLP Podcast w/Ruy Teixeira has arrived!
Ruy interviews
@bungarsargon
about her new book on the working class.
Available here and wherever fine podcasts can be streamed!:
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Rick Kahlenberg on the need to teach American identity built on core national values and shared history to combat the bad identity politics of the right and left—in TLP
@RickKahlenberg
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Voters Aren’t the Problem. It’s the Media and Political Institutions.
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A twofer on the Democrats today: first, why Democrats must be the party of and for normal voters by Lauren Harper of
@theWelcomePAC
:
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Coups, Counterterrorism, and Competition: America needs a new game plan in the Sahel
By
@KatieZimmerman
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Welcome back
@mbaharaeen
as TLP’s new chief political analyst!
Michael’s regular columns on political history, geography, and voting trends go out on Tuesdays.
Check it out and please subscribe to TLP.
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"Liberal Patriots" are key bloc in new research from
@PatrickRuffini
@EchelonInsights
"Older liberals who believe America is the best country in the world, don’t believe America is racist, oppose defunding the police, & support an active foreign policy”
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“Emissions reductions will be an inefficient lever in the fight against rising economic losses from severe storms. Instead, we should focus on managing exposure and reducing vulnerability in high-risk areas.”
@PatrickTBrown31
in TLP
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Great new TLP Podcast with NY-01 candidate
@JohnAvlon
Check it out and subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and listen here
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Give voters some credit.
Michael Baharaeen on the complexity of voter motivations and why race and gender matter less to electoral outcomes than activists think.
@mbaharaeen
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Michael Baharaeen on the singular need for a working-class economic message from the Harris campaign.
In TLP.
@mbaharaeen
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America's main foreign policy problem isn't that it's doing do much. As
@katulis
and
@stevenacook
argue, it's that we're doing too little - just as neo-isolationists on left and right call on America to retreat from the world and do even less.
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The Democrats’ Merit Problem: They No Longer Seem So Sure It’s a Good Idea
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Why Can’t the Democrats Be More Moderate?
Follow the money
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How Identity Politics Aids the Right and Divides the Left: A review of "Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics" by Kenan Malik
From new TLP contributor Sheri Berman
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Does anyone want to win the center?
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"Intense hatred of both Biden and Trump is roughly twice as high as intense love for each one, with Trump receiving the highest level of intense hatred overall at 32 percent."
John Halpin in
@TheLibPatriot
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Why Activists Keep Telling You the World is Ending: "Doomerism" is just nihilistic chic
By
@skmoskowitz
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With such strong numbers for
@SherrodBrown
, why do most forecasters see the race as neck-and-neck?
@NateMoore1287
in TLP
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Neighborhoods Are Not Local Labor Markets: Different types of distressed places need different solutions.
By
@TimBartik
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Class Is Back in Session! The Supreme Court Has Handed Democrats a Golden Opportunity
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Too many on the left and especially the right have confused their own narrow ideological bubbles for political majorities, TLP's John Halpin argues.
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Florida Man Turns State from Purple to Deep Red: How Ron DeSantis became governor of Florida, transformed the state's politics, and set himself up as a presidential contender—with a big assist from Democratic billionaires
by
@JohnBJudis
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How racial radicalism undermines Democrats' electoral appeal - an adaptation from Ruy Teixeria's and
@JohnBJudis
' book "Where Have All The Democrats Gone?"
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“We need supportive living conditions for low-income children of all racial and ethnic backgrounds across all 50 states—in small towns and big cities, alike.”
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How should America respond after an attack by Iranian-backed militants killed three American soldiers in Jordan? TLP's
@katulis
and
@juulpeterm
lay out what's possible:
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"Economically Distressed Places: How Big is the Problem?" - the latest entry in
@TimBartik
's place-based policy series for TLP.
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Why are Dems fumbling education? 1) They mishandled Covid-related school closures; 2) They let the culture wars distract from core mission of schools; and 3) They downplay merit/academic achievement.
Teixeira in TLP (originally
@EducationNext
)
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Ruy Teixeira on how the Harris coalition is likely to be a more class-polarized version of the post-Obama Democratic coalition with even more reliance on the college-educated vote, particularly the white college-educated vote.
In TLP.
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A Path to Civic Pluralism: American life would be much more enjoyable if we all learned to chill out a bit about politics and embrace people’s differences. (Part two in a series)
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It's getting worse...
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Do Place-Based Policies Work?: Helping residents of distressed places with “place-based policies”—such as creating good jobs in those places—is an admirable goal. But can it be achieved?
by
@TimBartik
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After the initial giddiness wears off, reality will set in for Democrats. And reality is that they are still losing working-class voters across the board.
Ruy Teixeira in TLP.
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What Biden Should Do About Affirmative Action: The Supreme Court's likely ruling gives him an opportunity to articulate an affirmative action policy that reminds working people of what they have in common rather than what divides them
by
@RickKahlenberg
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Tip: Look at vote share not the margin if you want a clearer understanding of the 2024 election.
@NateMoore1287
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Partisan euphoria only lasts so long. When it wears off reality sets in.
The Democrats’ Half-Hearted Move to the Center
They’re still pretty far away.
www.liberalpatriot.com
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An Insurance Policy for Democrats: Stop Calling the White Working Class “Racially Resentful!"
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Nation-First Public Policy: Instead of fighting useless partisan battles over niche issues, why not get together around key national priorities to help everyone succeed?
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Michael Baharaeen outlines 4 possible electoral scenarios shaping the actions of the next president—in TLP.
@mbaharaeen
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Contrary to popular belief, Democrats can win a greater share of the working-class vote - but only if they actually try, argues TLP's Ruy Teixeira:
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New TLP Podcast w/ guest
@Musa_alGharbi
How is social justice discourse used to justify and maintain inequality? Why are these problems often most acute in blue cities? In what ways have right-wing politicians capitalized on normie discontent?
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Democrats still need to mind the patriotism gap, Ruy Teixeira notes in his latest for TLP:
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We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident…: Most Americans rightly remain proud of their country, even as they recognize its deficits.
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Ruy Teixeira on the new center- in TLP
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“What Flint needs is not what Fresno needs or what Pulaski needs. One size does not fit all. The best strategies for expanding local job opportunities are comprehensive and customized to a place’s needs.”
@TimBartik
on place-based policies in TLP.
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Normie Voters Want Common-Sense Politics!: Why Can’t Either Party Give It to Them?
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The Democrats’ Agenda Has a Green Achilles' Heel: Voters Don’t Share Their Fervent Commitment to Renewables and EVs
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We're hearing more from the Indecent Left these days - a good reminder, TLP senior managing editor
@juulpeterm
says, that the mainstream center-left needs to build firewalls against it and put forward its own foreign policy vision.
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Ruy Teixeira in TLP:
"In all likelihood, it’s win the working class 'bigly' or bust for Trump."
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American Politics Needs a New National Purpose: Americans are willing to put in the hard work—if their leaders can expand our national horizons
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Five Reasons Why Democrats Should Focus Obsessively on Working-Class Voters
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Who backs RFK, Jr.?
@NateMoore1287
examines the data in this week's TLP infographic:
"RFK Jr. draws his support disproportionately from two groups: young voters and independents..."
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Thanks
@pescami
for the shout-out for TLP on your podcast - and hosting
@EmilyBlout
to discuss her great piece on strategic antisemitism:
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The Limits of Foreign Aid
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Thanks for the kind words!
Probably the best center/left organization I can think of is
@TheLibPatriot
Seldom are they not spot on with their views and analysis.
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What's holding back Biden's move to the center? The college-educated shadow party, argues TLP politics editor Ruy Teixeira.
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Michael Baharaeen with a historical look at just how close presidential elections have become.
@mbaharaeen
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TLP editor-at-large
@katulis
talks the Middle East with
@EliseLabott
over at her Cosmopolitics Substack:
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Michael Petrilli on why Democrats' universal debt forgiveness and Republicans' universal school choice ideas are bad for America - in TLP.
@MichaelPetrilli
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Ruy Teixeira examines the center left’s attempts in France, the UK, and the US to get beyond its Brahmin Left problem to appeal more widely to working-class voters.
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It's neo-Orientalism all the way down:
The Palestine protesters have created a dream Palestine that is almost entirely disconnected from the real place, in which all of their fantasies of a perfect society are realized.
This is a bit like what weebs do with Japan.
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The GOP Senate candidates trailing Trump by substantial margins - interesting new analysis from
@NateMoore1287
in TLP
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Democrats need to solve their abundance problem, Ruy Teixeira argues at TLP, and more money for green energy and electric vehicles won't cut it:
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TL(PM) DIGEST: We have lift-off on America's new industrial policy
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Nate Moore examines the 269-269 EC scenarios and the outlook if it goes to the House—in TLP.
@NateMoore1287
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So Far, So Good on Biden's Industrial Policy: An update on the progress made on reshaping America's economy—and the challenges that lay ahead
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"It is becoming clearer and clearer that climate change policy, to be politically successful, must be embedded in and subordinate to, the goal of energy abundance and prosperity."
Ruy Teixeira in TLP.
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Has the Emerging Democratic Majority Re-Emerged?
Probably not.
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Michael Baharaeen lays out the tough political reality for Biden—regardless of the debate episode.
New in TLP.
@mbaharaeen
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Two basic questions that occupy the minds of less engaged voters:
What exactly will Kamala Harris do for me and the country?
What type of person is Kamala Harris, and will I like and trust her?
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There’s much to be proud of about our history and core national values. Democrats should embrace and promote this patriotic vision in Chicago.
@MikeCooperJr
— in TLP.
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NEW data drop📈 from
@NateMoore1287
: Donald Trump is more popular now than at any point since he left office. The latest averages find Trump just 8 points underwater – a significant improvement from his -15 net favorability on Election Day 2022.
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Ava Kelley examines the institutional strengths and weaknesses of both Republicans and Democrats in TLP.
@gmantle_macro
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Part 2 of
@PatrickTBrown31
examination of the science and reporting on flooding, in
@TheLibPatriot
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The erosion of marriage among less-educated and low-income Americans "has been a defining feature of America’s widening socioeconomic disparities," TLP contributor Justin Vassallo write in his review Melissa Kearney's new book.
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On this D-Day anniversary, take a look at the sometimes overlooked but not to be missed national memorial in Bedford, VA -- a town that lost more men per capita that day than any other place in America.
From John Halpin in TLP
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Democrats have an education problem - but it's not too late to fix it, writes Ruy Teixeira in today's TLP.
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"Focusing on the raw ingredients feeding illicit synthetic drug labs operated by drug cartels is not a new idea. We have done it before, with great success."
And we need to do it again.
Rob Bovett in TLP
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Michael Baharaeen lays out the 2024 scenarios nationally, in the Electoral College, and among key voting blocs—in TLP.
@mbaharaeen
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Editor of today's book featured in TLP -
@YairZivan
- with a great piece on centrism in
@TheAtlantic
.
Check out TLP's review of The Center Must Hold here
My piece in
@TheAtlantic
on why centrism offers a change of direction from the trends in global politics and why it’s the best way forward.
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Time to Lay Out America's Aims in Ukraine: Muddled goals and objectives only undercut U.S. geopolitical strategy and diplomacy
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Greens got clobbered in recent European parliamentary elections. Ruy Teixeira looks at why this happened and what it means for U.S. Democrats—in TLP.
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Ruy Teixeira on Biden breaking free from the progressive left on immigration...and the need to break free on other issues to regain his centrist credibility over the next five months.
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Back to basics in the Middle East:
@katulis
with four ways to build a pathway to peace in the region and bridge divides at home.
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