If you want to really understand what Democrats say they want, what their vision is for America, it’s found inside of this document. It is the 2020 Democratic Party platform. For this story, I also delved into this giant document. And that is an opportunity for them to implement their vision. And they get to decide what policy should look like in those states. There’s just the we of Democrats and their supporters.

And they tend to think that if they would just get out of the way, then we can do the things that we want to do. I think Americans tend to view politics as a competition of us versus them. He’s been thinking about and writing books about and reporting on this topic for decades. So my question is, what do Democrats actually do when they have all the power? To answer this question, I teamed up with the Times editorial board writer Binya Appelbaum. “When middle-class families see their taxes go up, they’ll know Republicans are to blame.” But if you zoom in to these 18 states, there’s effectively no Republican standing in the way. where Democrats control the legislative and executive branches or else have some veto-proof majority in the legislature.

This is a map of the 18 states in the U.S. There is a question I’ve had for a very long time. Transcript Blue States, You’re the Problem Why do states with Democratic majorities fail to live up to their values?

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