03-07-2025
‘Abundance' at the fore of Democrats' new ideas sweepstakes
The market for 'big ideas' depends far more on demand than supply, and the craving in the Democratic Party for the next new and popular thing is intense. Amid all of the chaos created by President Donald Trump's antidemocratic power grab, one idea has broken through.
'Abundance' is, depending on your point of view, a bold and confident answer to the problems plaguing progressives; a fiendishly clever plot by corporate interests to blunt the power of the populist left; an intellectual craze that will pass; or a sensible but rather modest set of ideas to make building housing, clean energy projects, and mass transit easier and scientific breakthroughs more likely.
