While the party managed to take full control of government in 2020, Republicans are poised to return to power in Washington soon - beyond the losses that incumbent parties tend to suffer in midterm elections, Democrats are further endangered by the Electoral College’s current skew and the Senate’s worsening malapportionment. In full, Shor’s argument goes something like this: Democrats are in deep trouble. It’s not at all obvious that the party does popularism, in its pat simplicity and similarity to age-old Democratic nostrums, will not build it one. The debates between the two camps have been heated, but there’s a good chance we might remember them fondly before long-these were the debates we could have with one another, we might say to ourselves in a decade, when it was still possible to believe the Democratic Party had a future to win.
Unsurprisingly, popularism has itself gotten fairly popular among center-left pundits and has earned the ire of progressive journalists and activists. “He’s advised Democrats to stand against ‘defund the police,’ not talk too much about immigration, assume that Twitter is not real life, and talk about things that already have approval instead of trying to make unpopular things popular.” And Politico reported recently that he’s found a ready “audience with the White House.” “Some aides in the White House pay close attention to Shor’s analysis and have talked with him about his data, according to two sources familiar with the matter,” Playbook’s authors wrote. Shor’s been everywhere over the past year-including in the pages of The New Republic.
Earlier this month, The New York Times’ Ezra Klein ran a piece about the data analyst David Shor, the principal advocate of what’s being called popularism. Democrats have heard a lot, in recent weeks, about what they don’t want to hear.
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