Defending USAID Is Political Suicide for Democrats
Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee
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On the other side are those who make the argument that the primary interest of the United States is to protect America, its land and its people. To do that, it must engage in the world like any other nation.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
“A Democratic Party that is oriented toward attention seeking, toward picking fights, toward telling a simple story of big problems and clear villains, toward performing politics as much as talking about policy is a Democratic Party that would be a little more successful than the one we have. I should add, too, that this is a Democratic Party whose
... See moreThe kind of fiscal “discipline” favored by City of London banker elites translated directly into the cuts to education and health and the reduced social mobility that left people angry and caused them to wonder how there was money to help foreigners.