How To End Democrats' Civil War [View all]

National Politics
Jun 18, 2025
David Sirota

Abundance liberals and populists can together combat scarcity — but one side has to come clean.


If politics is now just a series of reality TV shows, then binge-watchers have probably seen some combative characters yelling “abundance” and “oligarchy” on the depressing new season of Democrats In Disarray.

The argument between the two sides is a new version of an old conflict about what out-of-power Democrats should identify as America’s central problems. Should the party declare that government, bureaucracy, and messy democratic institutions are the creators of scarcity and obstacles to abundance? Or should the party assert that corporate predators, billionaires, and organized money are the villains?

And will this debate fracture the Democratic coalition ahead of the midterms and the next presidential election?

It might, as I’ve argued in two recent essays. But in this follow-up, I’m here to suggest that it doesn’t have to. Amid encouraging signs from America’s biggest mayoral election, there are potential points of agreement on the center-left.
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Hopeful.