The success of President Biden’s legislative agenda rests, in no small part, on whether the Democratic leadership can force their moderate members’ mass conversion to popularism. EricLevitz writes
Democrat Josh Gottheimer, right, popular things hater. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag “Do popular things.” That might not seem like an especially innovative prescription for how to win elections and influence policy. But over the past year, many in blue America have treated the commandment as though it were a paradigm-shifting hypothesis akin to the theory of relativity.
On Capitol Hill today, however, the popularist ethos is dividing the Democratic Party’s center more than its left flank. And yet, as HuffPost’s Kevin Robillard reports, a separate contingent of moderates has already pledged to block any spending bill that includes partisan drug-price reforms: For the Democratic Party as a whole, Medicare drug-pricing reform is a political no-brainer. But that is not necessarily true for all of the party’s members as individuals. Gottheimer and Auchincloss are not going to rake in small-dollar donations from ideologically motivated Democratic superfans. They both rely on large-dollar funders, of which the pharmaceutical industry is a big one.
The president’s jobs and families plans look tailored to the tenets of popularist thought. Consisting of more than $4 trillion of public investments in green energy, public infrastructure, and welfare state expansion, the Biden agenda would constitute liberalism’s greatest legislative advance since the Johnson presidency. Yet it is virtually bereft of politically risky provisions.
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