Project 2029: Six Questions for Democratic “Leaders”

The new Democratic (foreign) policy project is not the change anyone seeks in this world. This is how we know.

A gaggle of leading Democrats are working on a fake answer to a real question: What is the collection of specific policies that can defeat MAGA?

The only serious answer to such a question must adequately address the conditions that cause MAGA: racism; militarism; and capitalism (or, if that’s not precise enough, corruption and oligarchy).

If you try to only answer this question electorally, in terms of what people will vote for, you’re operating on a false premise—policy tinkering does not win elections. More importantly, if you beat MAGA at the voting booth but don’t use state power to weaken the sources of reactionary strength, you don’t actually defeat MAGA; you’re just buying time before they take power again.