Source: The American Prospect
by Charlie McGill
“In the Democrats’ ongoing identity crisis, no proposed ‘path forward’ has generated as much internal debate as Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance. Regarded by its proponents as the solution to ineffective Democratic governance and by its opponents as rehashed neoliberalism, the controversy over this book has been rather abstract so far, with debate largely centered on the root causes of ‘scarcity’ (progressive bureaucracy or corporate power?). While the forum for this discourse may be the wonky terrain of zoning reform, financialization, and corporate consolidation, the underlying, fundamental question is far more political: Should the Democrats be the party of economic populism, or the party of center-left technocracy? At the macro level of national political messaging, the economic populists appear to be winning.” (09/13/25)
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2025-09-13-yimbys-cusp-major-victory-california/