“Eat-the-rich populism is the only answer” to the Democratic Party’s crisis, writes Timothy Shenk in a guest op-ed for The New York Times (NYT). Shenk proposes a fashionable curative to the party’s ills: Focus on grocery prices, buying a home, paying rent. 

Economic issues are to be the sleight of hand disguising “social issues.” In the populist Democrat’s preferred telling, abortion policy and illegal migration are distractions —  Culture war skirmishes crafted by a billionaire elite intent on dividing the 99% against themselves. How does the “New Democrat” position himself on those culture war issues? (RELATED: ‘Fundamentally Disagree’: NYC Dem Rep Confirms He Will Not Endorse Socialist Mamdani)