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(3,848 posts)snip* As President Trumps consolidation of autocratic power gains steam, its often been argued that the failures of liberal governance meaningfully helped to bring us to this moment. In this reading, the Biden administrationand other Democratic leaders in recent yearsallowed well-intentioned caution and respect for parliamentary safeguards and procedures to hobble ambition, frustrating voters and making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance as our civic cure-all.
This reading has now picked up the endorsement of a surprising group: a large bloc of former high-level members of the Biden administration.
The left-leaning Roosevelt Institute is releasing a major new report Tuesdaywith input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials across many agenciesthat seeks to diagnose the administrations governing mistakes and failures. The report, provided in advance to The New Republic, may be the most ambitious effort involving Biden officials to determine what went wrong and why.
In the report, Biden officials extensively identify big failings in governing and in the execution of the politics around big decisionsbut with an eye toward creating the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda. The result is a kind of proto-blueprint for Democratic governance to show that it can work the next time the party has power.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202327/trump-autocracy-rising-dems-unnerving-answer?vgo_ee=KW9NuBLAY56hLCywbCaWCM3VoZElbME7Bz8FNX0lVbXLKKHHWKMJ%3AbMTyX9%2BDDaOtEweXe%2FTzTz2Vbe1F8TJV
Imho, Lina Khan was Biden's greatest asset against corruption, but not many Americans may have understood how important she was to address his goals.