Feel free to ignore this, I’m just sharing because I found it really interesting. I listened to a podcast this week where Glenn Loury and John McWhorter interviewed Marc Dunkleman about his new book
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back.
Regardless of political leanings, many of us feel government isn’t very responsive, and Dunkleman digs into that. He’s a professor at Brown and identifies as a man of the left. Part of why he wrote the book, he said, is that Democrats present themselves as the party that believes government can improve people’s lives, yet many Americans think of government as their worst day at the DMV
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He points out that in the mid-20th century, people like Robert Moses got things done, but often at a huge cost. In response, the pendulum swung so far the other way that now very little gets done. Dunkleman argues this is part of how you end up with someone like Trump, and he lays out what he thinks progressives need to do to change that.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZqmfu1Q-t0