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Documenting the grim anniversary of the coronavirus-spurred lockdowns with an Opinion series entitled “The Week Our Reality Broke,”
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usual liberal obsessions of inequality were livened up by a disturbing diatribe that proposed a resettlement tax on New Yorkers who escaped the failing Democratic city during the pandemic.
Under the foreboding headline “They Left New York During Covid. Make Them Pay,” one would have hoped op-ed writer Luke Winkie was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek in his angry, almost ethnocentric vituperation of the supposedly fake New Yorkers who dared to temporarily escape the pandemic-stricken city in early 2020 as the death toll escalated and no one knew what was going on.
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Can Democrats Still Count on the Grass-Roots?
An internal study by Democratic consultants found that some small-dollar donors plan to cut back on giving.
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For Democrats who care deeply about progressive causes, Donald Trump’s presidency was a frightening experience. It was also a call to action. Progressive campaigns and causes experienced a huge spike in donations over the past four years, and in 2020 candidates up and down the ballot far outpaced fund-raising records from previous cycles.
So what happens now that Mr. Trump is no longer in power? In a political landscape defined by web advertising, social media campaigns and, yes, online fund-raising, many Democratic analysts and strategists are wondering whether they’ll be able to stir up the same kind of financial support.
The Coronavirus Made the Radical Possible
The past year has seen progressive pipe dreams become reality. But can we hold on to what we’ve learned?
By Rachel M. Cohen
March 11, 2021 This article is part of The Week Our Reality Broke, a series reflecting on a year of living with the coronavirus pandemic and how it has affected American society.
Last spring, as a poorly understood virus swept the planet, something remarkable happened: Across the country, all levels of government put in place policies that just a few months earlier would have been seen by most people not to mention most politicians as radical and politically naïve.