595 | Ned Resnikoff: One Year In - Taking Abundance Back to Its Fundamentals

The Realignment

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

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ned Resnikoff, Roosevelt Institute and author of Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ned discuss the history of how YIMBY housing activism led to the broader abundance movement, how Abundance supporters should think about bipartisanship and navigating the various political factions on the left of right who find the ideas relevant, and the relevance of abundance/YIMBY policy tools like regulatory reform and public investment to the goal of increasing supply of vital goods like housing, medical care, and childcare.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.1	Hey, everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:05.2	Today's episode has been a long time coming after a pretty aggressive focus on the
0:10.4	abundance agenda since Steve Dallas came on to discuss his rise of the abundance faction piece
0:16.1	back in mid-20204.
0:18.3	After this episode, I really think I've run out of things to say on the topic.
0:22.7	To be clear, this isn't a Marshall moves on to the next shiny policy thing. I'm still very
0:29.6	excited to co-produce the Abundance 2020-conference towards the end of this year, and my Niskanon-centric
0:35.7	abundance work will continue, so please reach out
0:38.1	if you're working on or interested in learning more about the space. Part of why I've been so
0:43.7	interested in abundance hasn't just been the policies themselves, but rather abundance's broader
0:49.5	context in the politics and policy space during the realignment moment. When I first came across abundance, I was clearly in the middle of, or just not really frank and honest with myself about,
0:59.7	my own ideological movement, back towards the center-left, after almost a decade, living in and covering the realignment right.
1:07.4	I first got interested formerly in the right back in 2014 when I read Sam Tannenhouses
1:12.6	New York Times Magazine article on Reform Conservatism.
1:16.6	Reform Conservatism was a wonky, policy-centric crew that tried to push conservatism
1:22.6	past its sort of 2012-B-Trump impasse and really upgrade the movement and its framing for the moment.
1:31.1	Since the abundance discourse really kicked off just right before Biden withdrew from the 2024 campaign,
1:36.3	I saw abundance as filling the same role in left liberal spaces as reformed conservatism attempted to in the 2014 right.
1:45.6	So with this episode, I really wanted to end the past year of aggressive coverage where I began last February. Back then,
1:51.0	Steve Towers and I interviewed Felicia Wong, then the head of the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute.
1:56.5	Talking with Felicia and hearing from lots of folks privately, I concluded that the idea that the left was implacably opposed
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