The Daily 202: Third Way makes an opening bid in the 2020 'ideas primary'

[DonViejo]

By James Hohmann March 15 at 8:37 AM

THE BIG IDEA: The center-left think tank Third Way believes President Trump’s unpopularity may be enough for Democrats to win control of the House in 2018, but it will not be sufficient to take back the White House in 2020.

The group, which has close ties to the party’s establishment, is proposing a new social contract for the digital age. A report being published today lays out a dozen policies that Democratic presidential candidates could run on. These ideas flow from a year-and-a-half of soul searching after the 2016 election.

“We came to the realization that, along with everybody else in Democratic politics, we had gotten a lot of things wrong about how Americans were thinking and feeling,” said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way and an alumnus of Bill Clinton’s White House.

In their view, the digital revolution is as destabilizing as the industrial revolution. A third of the country benefits from the tailwinds of automation and the gig economy while the other two-thirds are sailing against head winds. More parents fear that their children will not be better off than them. Millennials will move between jobs more than twice as often as Generation Xers.

“This is really kind of the opening bid of the ideas primary for 2020,” said Jim Kessler, Third Way's senior vice president for policy. “Democrats need a positive, modern, forward-looking economic agenda that gives people hope that they're going to have the opportunity to earn a good life in the future.”

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[alarimer]

1. Ugh.

Center-left, my ass.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Was gonna say the same thing.