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288 | Michael Tomasky: Why Progressive, Middle-Out Economics Will Succeed Neoliberalism

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Michael Tomasky, author of The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics, Editor of The New Republic and Editor in Chief of Democracy, joins The Realignment to discuss how progressives are reimaging economics to confront the neoliberal era's failures, why rising inequality and upward distribution is the central challenge facing America, and how the Biden administration's agenda reflects an emerging economic consensus in the Democratic Party.

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Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:09.0

One of the long-running themes of the show has been the idea that during a

0:12.0

Realignment of American politics, the Left and the Right respectively are going to

0:16.0

reimagine their economic programs to confront a different America and try to win

0:21.0

votes in the middle and working classes. So over the coming weeks, we're going to

0:25.0

focus on those Left and Right sides of these debates.

0:28.0

Today's episode is with journalist Michael Schumowski has a new book out.

0:31.0

It's called The Middle Out, The Rise of Progressive Economics, and it really looks at these

0:35.0

debates on the progressive Left and helps us give a bit of a coherent look.

0:39.0

Now, the Biden administration is approaching these issues as once again they are

0:42.0

debated within think tanks, organizing at a political level, and of course within

0:46.0

the Biden administration itself. In the coming weeks, we're going to do the same

0:50.0

exact topic from the right, would love some suggestions or who folks

0:53.0

think we should talk to, of course, of thinking of going back to the American

0:56.0

compass guys because they always have something valuable to add, would love

0:59.0

any suggestions on the sub stack right now.

1:02.0

It's there. If you enjoy this episode and this kind of mini series I'm doing

1:05.0

here, we'll offer you go to realignment.supercast.com. Once again, that's

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realignment about supercast.com or you can find the link in your show notes.

1:14.0

Hope you all enjoyed this episode and a huge thank you to Lincoln Network, the

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Minnesota Sponsored. Here we go.

1:26.0

Michael Tomaski, welcome to the realignment.

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