Commentary: With Trump and GOP on the run, Democrats have a chance to make a new New Deal
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Set us as preferred As is only proper, the weight of post-election punditry has fallen on the question of the demographics and political impetus of Tuesday’s blue wave.But it’s not too early to ponder how Democrats should use their new congressional majorities.Job 1 will have to be calling a halt to the Republican project to dismantle Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, rebuilding the compact it represented between Americans and their government, and filling in the gaps that have persisted since the New Deal’s creation in the 1930s.
That’s not to say that examining the forces that provoked Tuesday’s rout is a waste of time.That will mean holding to account the blithering nincompoops whom President Trump has endowed with unwarranted power over our lives — Pete Hegseth at Defense, Brooke Rollins at Agriculture, and certainly Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.at Health and Human Services, where he has presided over a nearly historic outbreak of measles and undermined public health in myriad other ways.
The people are what matter to government.A government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.— Frances PerkinsMoreover, the voters delivered an unmistakable message about how they feel about the domination of our political and economic space by mega-billionaires.
Elon Musk immolated about a half-billion dollars by attempting to sway voters toward Republicans, only to see the candidates who enjoyed his patronage lose at the polls.More than a year ago, I wrote of looking beyond the end of the Trump era by reaching out to my most trusted sources in science, medicine, labor and other fields, hoping to hear encouragement that the current situation would be fleeting.
The process, I recounted, produced a string of the most sepulchral conversations I’d had in my career — and I had covered two...