I think your collective takes are correct: This book is not for us, and it is not ambitious for a reason. It is trying to cater to the sort of mainstream voter democrats lost. It’s an attempt to realign the party on social values, but on social values that work. In that aim, I think it works—so long as the authors meet that mainstream voter through their podcast circuit. Because ironically, the person they are trying to reach probably won’t read the book or attend the press tour, and those of us who will are the already converted who are looking for a more ambitious take…
I think your collective takes are correct: This book is not for us, and it is not ambitious for a reason. It is trying to cater to the sort of mainstream voter democrats lost. It’s an attempt to realign the party on social values, but on social values that work. In that aim, I think it works—so long as the authors meet that mainstream voter through their podcast circuit. Because ironically, the person they are trying to reach probably won’t read the book or attend the press tour, and those of us who will are the already converted who are looking for a more ambitious take…