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What the Democrats need least: a new think tank financed by billionaires

What elected Dems REALLY need is the courage to stop taking big money and raise taxes on the wealthy to finance what most Americans need

Robert Reich
Sep 30, 2025
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Friends,

I recall participating in heated debates in late 1968 and early 1969 about why Democrats lost the presidency to “tricky Dick” Nixon. And another set of debates in the early 1980s about why Democrats lost to smooth-talking right-winger Ronald Reagan.

And then, after the disastrous midterm elections of 1994, why they lost both houses of Congress. …

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