#economicpopulism — Public Fediverse posts

Cheryl Elkins: Rahm Emanuel and Corporate Democrats Are Dangerously Out of Touch

After working a Massachusetts primary, Cheryl Elkins saw what voters actually want—and why corporate Democrats attacking progressives are missing the point.

Beshear Rejects the Democratic Civil War: Make Room for DSA and Working-Class Politics

DSA victories are forcing a Democratic reckoning. Andy Beshear offers the smarter answer: welcome the left, debate policy, and unite around the economic pain families face.

Platner’s Maine Victory Exposes the Democratic Establishment’s Blind Spot

Platner’s victory exposes a political class that misunderstands working people, economic pain, and authentic accountability.

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

Elect Democrats to stop MAGA, but don’t surrender progressive accountability. Jeffries’ rejection of Medicare-for-All raises a serious question about who should lead the House.

Angie Nixon illustrates that a DSA candidate is closer to Americans than Establishment Dems or Republicans.

Angie Nixon beat a $16 million opponent with organizing and economic populism. Her DSA affiliation matters less than the working-class policies voters recognize.

Abdul El-Sayed Torches Jesse Watters and Exposes Fox News’ Culture-War Game

Fox tried to define Abdul El-Sayed through culture-war attacks. He flipped the interview toward affordability, Medicare for All, corporate power and the everyday struggles of Michigan families.

When Voters Vote ‘F You’: Republican Failure Opens the Door to Democratic Socialists

Voters don’t always vote “thank you.” A GOP strategist warns Republicans have little to offer as affordability pushes voters toward new political choices.

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What negative gearing and transgender rights reveal about the Liberals’ populist strategy

For years the Coalition’s answer to the rise of conservative populism has been to treat it primarily as…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #angustaylor #AU #coalition #culturewares #economicpopulism #greens #larissawaters #negativegearing #OneNation #paulinehanson #transgenderrights
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/705050/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/jesse-jacksons-timeless-economic-platform

Keep hope alive.
#jessejackson #economicpopulism

#Americans are increasingly fearful of #AI, with 80% believing the #government should regulate it. This presents an opportunity for #Democrats to capitalise on #economicpopulism by opposing unchecked #AIdevelopment, a stance favoured by socialists and some mainstream Democrats. However, pro-business Democrats are hesitant to embrace this approach. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/ai-job-losses-populism-democrats-bernie-sanders-00706680?eicker.news #tech #media #news

As I get older, the threat of climate change is not as important as the economic struggles of working class Americans.

I do not think anybody and even Europe can really solve climate change, this issue was born after the industrial revolution.

But I do believe that the US and UK can fight against income inequality and make the cost of living more affordable for the working class.

#affordability
#universalhealthcare
#accessiblehealthcare
#lefteconomicpolicies
#economicpopulism
#workingclass

The left is pushing Democrats to embrace their greatest president. Why that’s a good thing.
https://archive.li/TzNbz

#fdr
#newdeal2
#welfaresystem
#franklindroosevelt
#newdeal
#economicpopulism
#affordablehousing
#affordability

Democrats please do a blue wave like FDR did in the elections of 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. No more Kamala Harris, Joe Bidens, or any of those arrogant bastard Democrat politicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election

#bluewave
#fdr
#newdealdemocrats
#economicpopulism
#welfarestate

If Democrats were like FDR, Democrats would be winning every election. Democrats must push economic policies that help everyone.
https://theconversation.com/fdr-united-democrats-under-the-banner-of-liberalism-but-todays-democratic-party-has-nothing-to-put-on-its-hat-255362

#newdeal
#fdr
#newdealdemocrats
#economicpopulism

Democrats need to embrace economic populism to win back young voters, says advocacy group leader:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/democrats-young-voters-election

#economicpopulism
#newdeal
#universalhealthcare
#medicareforall
#studentloanforgiveness
#taxtherich
#zohranfornyc

#EconomicPopulism wins elections. It may upset the donor class, but it wins elections.

#EconomicPopulism wins elections. It may upset the donor class, but it wins elections.

»#Democrats need to embrace #economicpopulism to win back #youngvoters, says advocacy group leader.« https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/05/democrats-young-voters-election?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement

> Our fear is that this billionaire-backed project is being explicitly used to undermine the kind of populist rebrand necessary to shed Democrats’ reputation as feckless cowards who can’t be trusted to fight for working people—to swap out a villainization of corporate elites that evokes FDR with a demonization of bureaucracy, regulation, and red tape that lends credibility to Elon Musk

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abundance-agenda-democrats/

#USpol #AbundanceRebuttal #economics #EconomicPopulism #oligarchy

"Flying the banner of “more economic populism” enables the Left to focus on economic issues while steering clear of more divisive debates around culture. As we have argued, and postelection survey evidence has suggested, the Democrats’ poor reputation with working-class voters is due, in part, to the perception that they are culturally out of touch. Denying this obvious fact is folly. And if Democrats want to win more working-class voters, they have to address the problem head on.

Still, if some economic populists risk ignoring their cultural liabilities, liberal skeptics of populism risk a different mistake: advocating for a return to Clintonism. After all, the New Democrats’ worship of the “knowledge economy” and the old Blue Dog coalition’s embrace of NAFTA and the job loss that took place thereafter were a big part of why working-class Democrats left the party.

Democrats need to address the economic interests of the working class, which means confronting the millionaires and billionaires and the warped economy they’ve created, while also speaking to the values of most workers. And that means confronting liberal cultural elitism.

In other words, the problem is that economic populism alone simply isn’t populist enough."

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/democrats-dealignment-populism-culture-class/

#USA #DemocraticParty #EconomicPopulism #CulturalElitism

Democrats must understand why people were the happy that the CEO of United Healthcare was assasinated. Democrats should use that anger to push for social programs like universal healthcare and free education.

#economicpopulism
#democrat
#freeluigi
#unitedhealthcareceo
#brianthompson

"Jacobin looked at hundreds of speeches, rallies, press gaggles, and interview transcripts to trace Harris’s messaging over the course of the campaign and the relative emphasis she placed on a variety of issues and policies. We looked at how frequently Harris used certain phrases in campaign messaging as a proxy for her emphasis on various issue areas or policy sets. Our analysis reveals that the Harris campaign pivoted away from the economy starting around mid-September, de-emphasizing policies that she had previously advocated and moving away from an adversarial stance toward elites. This parallels investigative reporting, which finds that the last weeks of the campaign were increasingly directed by the very same corporate interests that she abstained from criticizing.

Over the course of the whole campaign, Harris spoke less about economic issues and progressive economic policy priorities than Joe Biden had in 2020, and far less than Sanders had in the Democratic primaries that year. In this cycle, Trump addressed perhaps the most important issue for voters — prices and the cost of living — more than twice as often as Harris."

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/harris-campaign-economic-populism-democracy

#USA #KamalaHarris #Politics #PresidentialElection2024 #EconomicPopulism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgag3h_oOQ

#DemocracyNow

#JDVance Espouses #EconomicPopulism but will he actually be a working class hero? (no)

#Election2024 #USAShitShow

“We can have democracy in this country
or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,
but we cannot have both.”
~attributed to Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in The Morrow Book of Quotations in American History (1941)
#quote #plutocracy #EconomicPopulism
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/why-billionaires-support-trump/