The Liberal Patriot

5 days ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

📖 “Progress Depends on Reversing the Left's Working-Class Woes: There’s no forging a durable progressive coalition without winning back blue-collar workers,” by Jared Abbott. Our friends at the Center for Working-Class Politics put out a banger of a post a few weeks ago.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira

This just in: Americans love nukes!New Gallup data show attitudes toward nuclear energy doing a U-turn from negative views in the mid-teens to strongly positive views today. In less then 10 years, positive views have spiked by 17 points while negative views have plummeted by 19 points. That’s taken net support (favor minus oppose) from -10 to +27. This is surprising but it’s worth asking why this is surprising.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen

The economy has long been one of Donald Trump’s biggest strengths as president. During his first term, many Americans viewed his stewardship of the economy highly favorably. At one point, fully 63 percent of Americans approved of his economic performance, including even one-quarter of Democrats.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen |Nate Moore

What a year the last month has been. President Donald Trump has continued the hot start to his second term by boosting his anti-illegal-immigration efforts and moving forward with new tariffs. The former has received support from both Republicans and voters more broadly, but the impact of his brewing trade war is becoming almost all anyone can talk about—and possibly the reason his initially high favorability is starting to slip. More and that and much else below.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira

Today I have the privilege of welcoming Marc Dunkelman to the podcast. Marc is a research fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University and the author of a new book, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring it Back. We begin by discussing a key premise of his book: progressivism is, and always has been, split between a Hamiltonian impulse to push power up and a Jeffersonian impulse to push power down.