Derek Thompson

Not enough housing, not enough energy, not enough childcare, and what little gets built goes to the wealthy first.

Democrats will build an America that works for everyone, not just those at the top.

That was the message that polled the best.

I don't think that that's dispositive.

I mean, testing messaging is not the be all end all of politics.

And there are philosophical differences between liberals and populists that we shouldn't run away from.

They exist.

But the fights often obscured the degree to which.

individuals could hold simultaneously both populist and abundance principles.

And I've come to think of this somewhat cheesily as the abundance mullet, which is to say economic populism in the front and abundance in the back.

So who's wearing the abundance mullet as horrifying as that might be to imagine?

Zoran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent, but here he is talking about making it easier and faster for developers to build in New York City.

Yes, you're right.

He ran on both.

But I think if you polled people and asked them, what did you hear more about, freezing the rent or accelerating the time with which developers could start getting...

building in Manhattan and Brooklyn, I think most people associate him with the memetic freeze the rent rather than the less memetic shortening the permitting time from 18 months to 10 months.

So he's one example.

Another example, I think, is New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill, who ran on

freezing utility increases, making it easier for people to afford electricity by talking about price caps.

But her second executive order was all about supply-side renovations to encourage the construction of solar and storage in particular by making it easier to build energy in New Jersey.