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News, events, and must-read analysis from the Progressive Policy Institute.
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What Does a Midterm Split Decision Mean for Democrats?
By Will Marshall
President of PPI
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The votes are still being counted, but Democrats could yet win a split decision in the 2022 midterm elections. So much for the Red Tsunami giddily forecast by conservative commentators in the run-up to Tuesday’s vote.
There’s little doubt the Republicans will take over the House of Representatives, albeit by a much narrower margin than they expected. But control of the Senate will be decided in exactly the same place and manner as it was in the 2020 elections — a high-stakes run-off election in Georgia.
On Dec. 6, Sen. Ralph Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, will face off again against his Republican challenger, Hershel Walker. It’s a strange reprise that tells us several interesting things about U.S. politics.
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The 2022 Midterms: Key Lessons and Course Corrections
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Featuring Rep. Cheri Bustos
Tuesday, November 15
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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1201 15th St NW, Washington, D.C. xxxxxx
The dust hasn't settled on Tuesday's midterm elections, but discussions about the 2024 cycle have already started.
That's why on Tuesday, November 15th at 11:00 a.m., the Progressive Policy Institute is hosting a post-election event to discuss what message voters delivered in the midterm elections and its implications for party leaders as they look ahead. Please join us to hear from political leaders, campaign strategists, and policy experts on the lessons we learned and how the center-left can best position itself for the 2024 election cycle.
Panel:
Rep. Cheri Bustos (IL-17), U.S. House of Representatives
Ruy Teixeira, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Elaine Kamarck, Director of the Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings Institution
Moderated by:
Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute
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ICYMI: Can these Gen Z and millennial wonks make neoliberalism cool again?
By Graham Vyse
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If you’ve heard the word “neoliberal” in American political discourse in recent years, it probably hasn’t sounded like a compliment. Left-wing populists say neoliberals in the Democratic Party sold out to Wall Street. Right-wing populists say neoliberals in the conservative establishment abetted the rise of so-called woke capitalism. Political scientists talk about neoliberalism in yet another way — as a bipartisan political consensus around free markets, which has been blamed for inequality, the escalating climate crisis and other social ills.
But one night last month, over Blue Moons at a downtown D.C. pub, I talked with a group of millennial and Gen Z political wonks who are proud to call themselves neoliberals — embracing the term as a rebuke to populists of the left and right. Two dozen of these guys — and they were almost all guys on this occasion — had just attended a meeting of the DC New Liberals at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), a moderate-left think tank whose Center for New Liberalism has established more than 80 chapters claiming over 10,000 members around the world. (The D.C. chapter has nearly 500 members.) With its “Neoliberal Podcast,” which has more than a million downloads, and a Twitter account (@ne0liberal) that has more than 79,000 followers, the institute is on a quest to bring market-friendly moderation into the age of internet-meme politics — making a new appeal to young Americans who’ve largely rallied behind an invigorated progressive left.
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ICYMI: Neither Party Has A Good Plan For Social Security And Medicare
By Ben Ritz
Director of PPI's Center for Funding America’s Future
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The future of Social Security and Medicare has unexpectedly become a central point of contention in the final week before the 2022 midterm elections. As the two biggest non-emergency spending programs in the federal budget and the foundation of retirement security for nearly all American workers, it makes perfect sense to have a conversation about Social Security and Medicare during election season – particularly since both programs face serious financial challenges as our population ages. Unfortunately, the debate currently playing out on the campaign trail is devoid of the serious substance voters deserve, and it’s abundantly clear that neither party has a good plan to secure these programs for current and future beneficiaries.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who leads the GOP’s Senate campaign arm, kicked off the discourse when he released a proposal that would allow all federal programs – including Social Security and Medicare – to expire if not reauthorized every five years. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a far-right senator who is up for re-election next week, then suggested requiring the programs be reauthorized annually. Such a radical change that would enable these essential programs to suddenly vanish every few years would be catastrophic for American workers, who must plan their retirements around them years or even decades in advance.
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New from the Experts
COP27: A global methane agreement can prevent climate catastrophe, by Paul Bledsoe, Senior Advisor for the Progressive Policy Institute, and Durwood Zaelke and Gabrielle Dreyfus, Ph.D.
⮕ The Hill ([link removed])
Modern Monetary Theory, debunked everywhere except among government big-spenders, | Opinion, featuring PPI's Center for Funding America's Future
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For Republicans, Crime Pays, No Matter What Else Happens | Opinion, featuring PPI's report, the New Politics of Evasion
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I drink my beer from a can, don’t take away my choices, by Lindsay Lewis, PPI's Executive Director
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Close COVID-19 Achievement Gap with Free Summer School, by Paul Weinstein Jr., Senior Fellow for PPI
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ICYMI: School Leaders Debate How Education Politics Will Shape '22 Midterms ft. Curtis Valentine, Co-Director of PPI's Reinventing America's Schools
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RADICALLY PRAGMATIC:
Could Ignoring Swing Voters Reopen the Door for Donald Trump?
In September 1989, the brand-new Progressive Policy Institute published The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency. Nearly 33 years later, this political study maintains more than just historical interest today as the Democratic Party once again must wrestle with basic questions of political outlook and electoral strategy.
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THE NEOLIBERAL PODCAST:
Joint Episode with the Political Orphanage: NEPA's Paperwork Hell
This week's episode is a joint episode with Andrew Heaton's podcast, The Political Orphanage. Andrew and Jeremiah discuss NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, and why environmental permitting has gotten out of control.
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