The 2024 DNC: All Vibes, Little Substance

What is the Harris Doctrine exactly? Remember Medicare for All? In 2019, as Democrats scrambled to adjust around Bernie Sanders’s presence in the primary field, Harris herself proclaimed that it was a “human and civil right,” but now it’s all but off the table.

A Green New Deal? Yeah, right. A cease-fire in Gaza? We’ll see, but only if you stop raising a ruckus. But, hey, aren’t you psyched about our subsidy program to incentivize corporate developers to build a small number of slightly-below-market-rate units? Let’s hear it for removing medical debt from credit scores! No, we will not do anything drastic to eliminate the medical debt itself. Or the student debt, for that matter.