“Abundance”: We read the nice book that divides American Democrats
By Remi Noyon
Published on , updated on
“Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press, 304 pp., untranslated.
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Analysis: Two star journalists, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, offer a roadmap for the American left. But who wants one?
Where does the problem lie? Is it that big business has too much power? Or is it too much bureaucracy? In the midst of soul-searching after their electoral debacle, American Democrats are dividing themselves into two groups: if you're closer to the former, you're what's now called a "populist"; if you're closer to the latter, you're an " abundance democrat." In the United States, this dichotomy is now being used by pollsters .
The populist vein is well known: that of Bernie Sanders and his young New Yorker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . The "abundance advocates" vein, on the other hand, owes its name to a book written by two journalists, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The former, a star columnist for the New York Times, embodies the centrist, sympathetic and uninhibited intelligentsia. The latter works at The Atlantic. Together, they propose a method for...
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