We Can Do Better Than Bidenism

David Rothkopf : Democrats ran away from progressive appeals that voters abandoned them.

He says Bidenomics failed to deliver the results Bidenomics promised.

He asks: Can parties of the Left manage the economy in a way that could result in broad prosperity for workers without inflation destroying wage gains? He says if the Left cannot legislate effective economic policy, there isn't much hope for a social democratic future.

Frida Ghitis : The Left has been unable to make any headway on raising taxes on the rich.

She says the Left has won new assistance programs by piling on public debt in order to “buy time’s buy time” Ghitis says a bigger emphasis on productive investments would provide more and better jobs for workers in struggling parts of the U.S. She says a more ambitious welfarism isn’t the solution.

As GOP trifecta gets set to take over levers of power, we’re going to see the fruits of their national populist project.

That project is also producerist, and it too sees a much larger role for the state in economic direction.

That leaves it to the Left to develop a genuine alternative: a social productivism.