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The first big step is to repair the safety net so that workers and families are no longer at perpetual risk of falling through and drowning, as millions have in the pandemic. This means essentially extending the New Deal to more Americans in more areas of their lives: universal health care, child care, paid family and sick leave, stronger workplace

These conditions, largely the result of decades of anti-government ideology, turn equality into a lie, and the lie deranges everyone. The way to begin reversing the deterioration is to show the American people that government can make their lives better. We’ve been ravaged by a short emergency—the pandemic and the depression-like conditions that it

Also, lacking civil liberties and property rights, representative democracy is left with nothing to represent except the will of the mob or—as it’s called these days—“activism.”

Hayden White expresses what I believe is a sympathetic critique of Ricoeur’s ideas.

Pour Lasch, le populisme forme dans l’histoire américaine une contre-tendance qui s’est opposée très tôt au progrès et aux idéaux universalistes. Plus spécifiquement, il définit le populisme du xixe siècle de la manière suivante : Le Populisme du xixe siècle revêtait une signification suffisamment spécifique : une posture de producteur ; une défens

To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and