David Kusnet was the chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton from 1992 to 1994 and the author of Speaking American: How the Democrats Can Win in the Nineties,plus Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America’s Best Workers Are More Unhappy than Ever.
To avoid becoming the foil for Right Populism, Left Populists need to respect working-class values of work, family, community, patriotism, and the aspiration for stability and security.
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It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we were running late because he had been on the phone with President Bill Clinton. Naively, I noted something about their discussing a state issue. Without missing a beat, the governor said of Clinton, his fellow Democrat, “I was telling him what he was doing wrong with the country and how to fix it!” So began my real education in politics, which I was quickly learning…
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While Trump muscles the media and renames the Kennedy Center, history will get the last laugh. Just ask the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
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