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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

1) Great points. Good to see you on here - haven’t been seeing your posts for a while! I think Democrats need to do something really difficult: mount a populist economic campaign that is still pro-capitalist. This is where AOC, Bernie, et al. fail. Those of us old enough know the problem now is—

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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

2) neoliberalism - profit without regard to the common good - not capitalism. Capitalism though never pretty can be made to serve the common good as it did from 1946-1970. But neoliberal money has corrupted our govt so that laws and regulations now only serve the .1%. A Democratic platform that—

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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

3) wasn’t just redistributive but also made structural room for ambitious, hard-working Americans to get ahead - training, investment, ability to compete, protection from monopoly and oligopoly, regulation of AI - would be enormously popular across the board. Populist anger channeled positively.

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