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Flailing Democrats Need to Build Coalitions, Not Primary Their Own Members
By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill
These are anxious times for our country. We are assailed hourly by a belligerent president who treats America’s laws, courts and civil liberties with utter contempt and imagines he can rule a free people by royal decree.
Are Democrats fighting hard enough against President Trump’s malicious policies and rampant abuses of power? Progressive activists say no, and they’re even threatening to unseat Democrats they claim are afraid to mix it up.
This is asinine — a return to the politics of subtraction that has locked the party out of power, effectively disarming it in the struggle with a rogue president.
The party’s left turn in reaction to Trump’s rise since 2016 has been a fiasco. It’s identified Democrats with soaring prices and living costs, sclerotic federal bureaucracies that can’t get things done, unrestricted illegal immigration, permissive attitudes toward crime and an illiberal politics of race and gender essentialism.
That has left the Democratic brand badly tarnished. Only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the party.
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As President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans begin drafting a sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill” to implement their second-term economic agenda, a new report from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) warns that the GOP’s reconciliation effort risks repeating — and exacerbating — the economic and political mistakes of President Biden’s failed “Build Back Better” plan. The report, “How Trump’s BBB is Shaping Up to Be an Even Bigger Mess Than Biden’s,” authored by Ben Ritz, PPI’s Vice President of Policy Development, argues that despite the difference in their origins and ideological goals, the BBBs of Joe Biden and Donald Trump have far more in common than just their initials.
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A Way Out of SCOTUS Charter School Ruling Mess: Focus on Mission, Not Religion
By Richard Kahlenberg
Director of Housing Policy and the American Identity Project
for The 74
On April 30, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could compel states with charter school laws to authorize religious charters. Reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The 74 said the court’s conservative majority bloc appeared “open to” religious charter schools.
Such a ruling would be bad for the country and deeply disruptive. It could upend the charter school sector, raising questions about the constitutionality of the federal charter school law and the laws in 47 states, all of which require charters to be nonsectarian. It could lead to blue states cutting back on charter schools and red states seeing a flood of religious charters open up, which would further balkanize an already divided country.
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Staff Spotlight: John Michael Dieng
Political Outreach Coordinator
John Michael Dieng is the Political Outreach Coordinator for the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). In this role, he assists with planning and executing PPI’s political engagement and strategic initiatives with elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.
Previously, John managed and oversaw office operations for U.S. Representative Don Davis (NC-01), who serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee and a member of the House Committee on Agriculture. He also served as a Communications and Political Affairs Fellow for the Progressive Policy Institute.
A New York native, John graduated from the University of Virginia where he studied Government and Foreign Relations. Before joining PPI, he interned and worked as a research assistant at the UVA Center for Politics and Crystal Ball, studying under political scientist and analyst Professor Larry Sabato.
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