THE ABUNDANCE DELUSION

I mean, what even is a Democrat at this point?

Excerpt: "Can this be Abundance? Can center-left liberals, who claim they want to introspect and reform and actually build a lot of housing and infrastructure, and generate new resources rather than punitively redistribute us all into stagnation, open their tent in such a way that there is room for committed, eat-the-rich communism and sensible housing policy alike?

Can they not only wrench the youth of their party from Hasan Piker’s armpits, but actually get Hasan, a real authentic bad-boy socialist, to join them? What do you say, fellow kids, mass murder but make it YIMBY?

Yeah, man, sorry, I don’t see it. Provided that the purpose of the Abundance movement is earnestly to galvanize the left under the banner of Abundance, which it will then produce, the project is obviously doomed to fail. Partly this is because of structural issues innate to our political system, and partly this is because large swaths of the left, which Abundance Dems need to win elections, are actively and often publicly fantasizing about sending Abundance Dems to the guillotine.

Nonetheless, from what I can tell, such an alliance does seem to be the hope of the center-left, as Democrats set out to defeat the great orange menace in Washington, D.C. It’s a desperate move, courting people who compulsively call for your death as often as they call for the death of Republicans, though after this summer, I understand the desperation to just get something working.

I mean, at this point, what even is a Democrat?"