Democrats are going big. They're certainly not bold. by mattbai
Kirsten Gillibrand formally joined the presidential field this week, saying she’s running because America deserves a leader who makes “big, bold, brave choices.”
Elizabeth Warren wants a tax on assets and a breakup of the big tech companies. Bernie Sanders is back with free college and expanded Social Security. Pete Buttigieg and others have talked about expanding the number of liberal justices on the Supreme Court and eliminating the Electoral College. Presumably, the current crop of Democratic candidates are harking back to the party’s proud legacy of 20th century leaders, revered for their boldness. There’s a nostalgia for Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, for the unabashed and lofty idealism of the Kennedys.
In an act of political courage none of today’s candidates would dare to emulate, Kennedy went into rooms full of college students and told them he would end their draft deferments, because he didn’t think it was fair to ask only the poor to bear the burden of war. That’s bold. That we can live in a magical reality where government can spend as much as it wants, because apparently the newest economic thinking is that debt can be limitless and everything will be fine?
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