Democrats should not play on Republican turf---- Robert Reich (Jun 17 ) [View all]

SNIP

The largest force in American politics is antiestablishment fury at a rigged system. There is no longer a big-government left or a small-government right or a moderate “center” in between.

There’s only right-wing cultural populism — taking aim at immigrants, transgender people, the “deep state,” “DEI,” “woke-ism”, “socialism,” critical race theory, and other Trump Republican bogeymen.

Or economic populism — aiming at the real causes of the nation’s soaring inequality and the legalized bribery of politicians: large corporations that insist on regulatory rollbacks, their fat-cat CEOs (now earning 350 times their typical employees) who want bigger tax loopholes, and other hugely wealthy Americans who are demanding larger tax cuts.

Democrats cannot win by giving in to Republican cultural populism. They must hammer economic populism.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-hell-is-the-moderate-middle

Honest.