A Full-On Populist Biden Would Have Won Florida

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Yawn. That’s my reaction to this perennial debate about whether a progressive agenda is a winning agenda. Of course, it is—and that has a lot to do with how you define “progressive”.

At least, on economics, it’s clear: what puts more money in peoples’ pockets, what makes it possible for people to make a decent living and what narrows the inequality gap.

People are very practical. They aren’t going to get lost in the weeds of policy debates cuz who has time for that.

What they want to see is simple: is what you are proposing going to help me pay the bills?

Which brings me to Florida.

I’m going to show you, with data, how, arguably, Joe Biden could have defeated Trump in Florida—perhaps, easily. And there is a lesson going forward about how to run winning campaigns.

What really grabbed my attention in the Florida results was a relatively …