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The 2024 presidential election saw the country take alerts to the right and left liberals asking themselves, why?

Amid the post-election wave of think pieces and podcast commentary, one issue began to take center stage,

the condition of liberal cities.

Thinkers like Ezra Klein and even politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom are making

the case that if the Democratic Party wants to win back voters, they need to examine why and how liberal

strongholds like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York have become so unaffordable for working

class people and families. They say Democrats need to build more housing and infrastructure

faster in these cities. Klein has called it the politics of abundance.

He and Derek Thompson co-authored a book called abundance.

And despite the book being about wonky policies, his ideas have captured the attention

of even mainstream outlets, like the late show with Stephen Colbert.

The left has a complicated relationship with actually letting government act. You think about

high-speed rail in California. You think about the Second Avenue subway in New York City.

You think about the big dig in Boston. You think about the shortage of housing in a bunch of the

places where liberals govern. And it's simply got to say something is wrong. You have to

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