Popular economic policy proposals are not enough to save the Democrats 📊 October 17, 2021

Voters care about too many things for "economic populism" alone to remake class politics and save the Democratic Party

A poll from early 2020 on Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax for individuals worth over $50m

I have spent my weekend combing through the copy edits for Strength In Numbers and only have time for a few brief remarks for today’s newsletter.

First, thanks to all who reached out about last week’s email on the future of the Democratic Party. Several of you had insightful comments that will form the basis of another post on this subject soon. Specifically, several of you emailed about the role that gender plays in political psychology in general and the education divide in voting in particular. There’s more to say here that the media does seem to be missing.

But second, and on related numbers, I want to follow-up on a subscribers-only post sent out yesterday about the popularity of the most redistributive and economically “populist” portions of Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda and the Democrats’ corresponding reconciliation bill in Congress. Polling from Navigator research suggests …