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Uff dah, as we say up here.

I’ve resisted posting anything about the election because I’m not sure I have organized my thoughts in any particular way that makes sense. I read and liked this piece though, and I hope to see more thinking, writing, planning, and action like this proposal from Matthew Yglesias.

I don’t know that I agree with all of it, but I want to amplify the point: The democrats need to rebuild the platform and also learn how to talk about it again.

A Common Sense Democrat manifesto – by Matthew Yglesias:

Nine principles for Common Sense Democrats

My goal here is to write these principles down at an adequate level of abstraction such that they don’t become a policy laundry list. They’re also not supposed to be a straitjacket. Different people have different views and different priorities, and principles need to be loose enough to accommodate some differences.

Anyway, it’s worth a read.