Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
Klein's supply-side progressivism, first called 'Supply Side Progressivism' then 'Liberalism Builds' then 'Abundance,' shifted from fringe to consensus across the Democratic Party in a few years.
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Williamson asks whether Klein still believes the Vox founding thesis: that better information creates better politics. Klein refines the claim — it is not just information quality but the information environment, including how information is sorted and surfaced algorithmically, that determines political outcomes. You could have better information than any time in history and still have worse political reasoning. But he offers a genuinely hopeful case study: the Abundance argument. What started as 'Supply Side Progressivism' in 2021, moved to 'Liberalism Builds,' and then finally to Abundance is now the common language of the entire Democratic mainstream — Newsom, Mamdani, New Democrats, governors' candidates across California. A RAND construction cost study that Klein now cites at policy forums was known to every participant at a recent California governor's race housing debate. The ideas moved. Good argumentation that cuts across factional lines can actually work, and it can work faster than cynics expect. It is not always or even usually enough — but it is not nothing either.
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