The Case for Abundance Populism

The Left can reclaim the language of growth, optimism, and plenty from the Right.

by Waleed Shahid

“Populism without power is theater. Technocracy without redistribution is surrender.” (Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images)

America’s working and middle classes face a dual crisis: declining trust that government can deliver for ordinary people, and an accelerating concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. Yet, rather than tr…