Being here as a Conservative Democrat and even as a Harris enthusiast, I haven't quite bought the farm on Kamala is a moderate. Yes, I am glad that Dems are becoming the normal decency party of football coaches and love of country.
But Welcome should be more than a pr outlet methinks for Harris and hold for feet to the fire to keep her from being the historical progressive she was.
In particular I dislike her price gouging price control ideas, which even most liberal economists oppose. She tends to follow the Sanders script in demonizing the evil capitalists and away from reality. I think she did tone it down, and I even heard one prescription on the housing inflation that would make Matt Yglesias and the YIMBYs happy as a prescription for making housing affordable, namely building more houses, where, if the inflation of 2021 should inform us that just giving people 25K to buy houses when the supply is short will only make them more scarce and expensive.
I also generally support child tax credits and even the first year of life credit, but what I fail to hear from either party, the GOP more re their exuberant tax cuts, is where the money will come from, these are enormous expenditures, as would be the 25K for new homeowners, as would be the student loan bailouts. Is Welcome weighing in on balancing the budget and being a little modest on the spending side or are we buying into progressive monetary policy that debt doesn't matter.
I hear you on this! I desire for Harris to be a centrist, but I also think she authentically is one, particularly because her 2019 campaign seemed more like progressive pandering than who she really was or where she really positioned herself ideologically. I'm trying to grace her and the campaign for what otherwise could be seen as an about-face if not done strategically and with empathy since the Party and Biden Administration has made so many progressive concessions over the years. We know the Democratic base is largely moderate. My hope is that she continues her trek to the center without distraction and perhaps even offers addendums to some of the economic policy you mentioned. Much to do and so little time!
I hope you are right. I was quite disappointed with Joe Biden who ran the moderate lane and then seemed to pivot left once in office, and it was telling that the people who held into the last on his myopic course towards the waterfall were Bernie Sanders and AOC. Thank you fairy godmother Pelosi.
The Democratic base is somewhat moderate but the House is divided about 50/50 between the Progressive Caucus and the New Democratic caucus. It was encouraging to see Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman lose, so perhaps the further left has hit their high water mark.
My hope would be a Clintonian type president who might challenge some of the left orthodoxies but I'd be happy with an Obama approach of moderation within a more typical liberal view. I know denouncing the price gougers gets populist support but I think price controls are counterproductive, though likely could never pass the Senate.
I think the mortgage benefits would be a potential disaster, and think we might have learned from 2008 that giving people, who aren't credit worthy enough to get a mortgage, a free pass, only to foreclose in the future, is not smart.
The party is actually trending to more sensible housing solutions in the West where progressive policies heretofore, based on attacking developers and landlords has led to the countries highest housing costs in the most progressive cities- Boston, SF, NY. I heard some mention of that like zoning changes and cutting red tape for builders, as is starting in the West, but the tendency is to throw red meat at the populists by denouncing developers, landlords, the elites, etc.
Dems should make an effort to attract crypto industry back to the US, as a third of Americans have crypto(s) and are being tricked by GOPers into hating Kamala for allegedly planning to nominate Gary Gensler as Treasury Secretary.
Being here as a Conservative Democrat and even as a Harris enthusiast, I haven't quite bought the farm on Kamala is a moderate. Yes, I am glad that Dems are becoming the normal decency party of football coaches and love of country.
But Welcome should be more than a pr outlet methinks for Harris and hold for feet to the fire to keep her from being the historical progressive she was.
In particular I dislike her price gouging price control ideas, which even most liberal economists oppose. She tends to follow the Sanders script in demonizing the evil capitalists and away from reality. I think she did tone it down, and I even heard one prescription on the housing inflation that would make Matt Yglesias and the YIMBYs happy as a prescription for making housing affordable, namely building more houses, where, if the inflation of 2021 should inform us that just giving people 25K to buy houses when the supply is short will only make them more scarce and expensive.
I also generally support child tax credits and even the first year of life credit, but what I fail to hear from either party, the GOP more re their exuberant tax cuts, is where the money will come from, these are enormous expenditures, as would be the 25K for new homeowners, as would be the student loan bailouts. Is Welcome weighing in on balancing the budget and being a little modest on the spending side or are we buying into progressive monetary policy that debt doesn't matter.
I hear you on this! I desire for Harris to be a centrist, but I also think she authentically is one, particularly because her 2019 campaign seemed more like progressive pandering than who she really was or where she really positioned herself ideologically. I'm trying to grace her and the campaign for what otherwise could be seen as an about-face if not done strategically and with empathy since the Party and Biden Administration has made so many progressive concessions over the years. We know the Democratic base is largely moderate. My hope is that she continues her trek to the center without distraction and perhaps even offers addendums to some of the economic policy you mentioned. Much to do and so little time!
I hope you are right. I was quite disappointed with Joe Biden who ran the moderate lane and then seemed to pivot left once in office, and it was telling that the people who held into the last on his myopic course towards the waterfall were Bernie Sanders and AOC. Thank you fairy godmother Pelosi.
The Democratic base is somewhat moderate but the House is divided about 50/50 between the Progressive Caucus and the New Democratic caucus. It was encouraging to see Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman lose, so perhaps the further left has hit their high water mark.
My hope would be a Clintonian type president who might challenge some of the left orthodoxies but I'd be happy with an Obama approach of moderation within a more typical liberal view. I know denouncing the price gougers gets populist support but I think price controls are counterproductive, though likely could never pass the Senate.
I think the mortgage benefits would be a potential disaster, and think we might have learned from 2008 that giving people, who aren't credit worthy enough to get a mortgage, a free pass, only to foreclose in the future, is not smart.
The party is actually trending to more sensible housing solutions in the West where progressive policies heretofore, based on attacking developers and landlords has led to the countries highest housing costs in the most progressive cities- Boston, SF, NY. I heard some mention of that like zoning changes and cutting red tape for builders, as is starting in the West, but the tendency is to throw red meat at the populists by denouncing developers, landlords, the elites, etc.
Great piece… Kamala has always been a moderate… it’s good to see her being herself again.
Dems should make an effort to attract crypto industry back to the US, as a third of Americans have crypto(s) and are being tricked by GOPers into hating Kamala for allegedly planning to nominate Gary Gensler as Treasury Secretary.
https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/08/20/about-that-gary-gensler-for-treasury-secretary-story/