As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains steam, it’s often been argued that the failures of liberal governance meaningfully helped to bring us to this moment. In this reading, the Biden administration—and other Democratic leaders in recent years—allowed 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 Tuesday—with input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials across many agencies—that seeks to diagnose the administration’s 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 decisions—but 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.
“We must reckon honestly with how we got here and why the American public has been so frustrated with these institutions for so long,” Roosevelt Institute president Elizabeth Wilkins writes in the report’s introduction. “The rising authoritarianism we see today shows us the stakes.”
There is no Liberal Party of the USA. There is a Liberal Party in UK, Australia, etc and in those places you could rightfully say “liberals are cunts” but in the USA the word means what the dictionary says it means. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism
First line on their Wikipedia article. You don’t need to have the word “liberal” in your name to be one. It’s actually precisely why it’s used as an insult by certain progressives. They stopped being a liberal party a long time ago. Compared to Europe, Australia, Canada, etc, we have two shades of conservative as a choice.
Edit: I did say party name tho, I get it if you mean how we don’t have a liberal party in the sense they aren’t called “the liberal party” but I’m thinking that’s not what you were getting at either.
The point I’m trying to explain to you is that the CONCEPTS of Liberal and the LIBERAL PARTIES are different even to the point of being opposed. The DNC are a Liberal Party, but the Liberal Party of Australia is NOT a Liberal Party.
It’s kind of like how Republicans aren’t upholding a republic, the Chinese Communist Party aren’t Communists, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are not a Democratic Republic, doesn’t belong to the people, and also do not own the Korean Peninsula.