Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

Read the full post at - Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson I don’t usually read best-selling political books of the moment. They feel too tied to whatever news cycle is happening right now, and I’d rather read something that has aged a bit. But it feels like we’re at a genuine inflection point in American politics. The party coalitions that formed in the late 60s and early 70s—now going on 50 years old—are breaking down. Politicians sense it. Voters sense it. Even though passing new laws seems impossible right now, it reminds me of other transition moments in American history: around 1900, the 1940s, the late 1970s. Moments where everything felt zero-sum because coalitions were locked in, right before a reset. That’s where Abundance comes in. What the Book Argues The short version: Abundance is a manifesto for the Democratic Party to reframe public goods in terms of abundance rather than distribution. Klein and Thompson argue for a return to a New Deal/1950s form of governance.…