The Abundance circus swears it’s a “big tent,” but who’s actually inside the tent? Koch money, crypto cowboys, Peter Thiel’s fertility cultists, and Andreessen’s crypto-burning ghost of Enron past. Ezra Klein may not dream of mass deportations, but the financiers underwriting his “abundant” utopia sure as hell do.
What you’ve outlined is the oldest game in American politics: liberals write the pamphlets, billionaires write the checks, and suddenly what started as an intra-Democratic “fight about the future of liberalism” becomes a bipartisan liquidation sale of the commons. When John Arnold and the Pacific Legal Foundation are in the sponsor lineup, you don’t have a coalition - you’ve been colonized.
Klein and Thompson wanted to rebrand liberalism as visionary technocracy. What they delivered is a Trojan horse where the “vision” is funded by people who think unions, environmentalists, and town halls are obstacles to be bulldozed. They can insist they’re progressives, but when the guest list includes Koch emissaries, Thiel’s surveillance state, and a foundation that literally cut checks to Swedish neo-Nazis, the question isn’t whether Abundance defines the future of the Democratic Party. It’s whether the Democratic Party is willing to be defined by the very forces trying to dismantle it.
Exactly! “Broad church” and “big tent” are just polite euphemisms for a neoliberal pickpocket act. They claim inclusivity, but somehow the pulpit is always reserved for the same deregulation crowd, the same billionaires with a new buzzword. Socialists get the collection plate passed under their noses, never the microphone. And like Labour’s broad church, the Abundance tent isn’t really capacious; it’s a funnel, narrowing the left out while laundering right-wing policy through liberal branding. The only thing abundant here is the hypocrisy.
Very much a corporate astroturfed organization. We do have a problem with building housing in this country so hopefully they can bring a YIMBY agenda to more than just the blue states. And logically they should be streamlining the process of building clean energy infrastructure. Good luck with that !
The Abundance circus swears it’s a “big tent,” but who’s actually inside the tent? Koch money, crypto cowboys, Peter Thiel’s fertility cultists, and Andreessen’s crypto-burning ghost of Enron past. Ezra Klein may not dream of mass deportations, but the financiers underwriting his “abundant” utopia sure as hell do.
What you’ve outlined is the oldest game in American politics: liberals write the pamphlets, billionaires write the checks, and suddenly what started as an intra-Democratic “fight about the future of liberalism” becomes a bipartisan liquidation sale of the commons. When John Arnold and the Pacific Legal Foundation are in the sponsor lineup, you don’t have a coalition - you’ve been colonized.
Klein and Thompson wanted to rebrand liberalism as visionary technocracy. What they delivered is a Trojan horse where the “vision” is funded by people who think unions, environmentalists, and town halls are obstacles to be bulldozed. They can insist they’re progressives, but when the guest list includes Koch emissaries, Thiel’s surveillance state, and a foundation that literally cut checks to Swedish neo-Nazis, the question isn’t whether Abundance defines the future of the Democratic Party. It’s whether the Democratic Party is willing to be defined by the very forces trying to dismantle it.
well said
I’m afraid I agree 100% so far 🤨
Exactly! “Broad church” and “big tent” are just polite euphemisms for a neoliberal pickpocket act. They claim inclusivity, but somehow the pulpit is always reserved for the same deregulation crowd, the same billionaires with a new buzzword. Socialists get the collection plate passed under their noses, never the microphone. And like Labour’s broad church, the Abundance tent isn’t really capacious; it’s a funnel, narrowing the left out while laundering right-wing policy through liberal branding. The only thing abundant here is the hypocrisy.
Very much a corporate astroturfed organization. We do have a problem with building housing in this country so hopefully they can bring a YIMBY agenda to more than just the blue states. And logically they should be streamlining the process of building clean energy infrastructure. Good luck with that !
The Democrats started the genocide. They're dead to me💀