What Is the Anti-Trumponomics Agenda?
If the Democrats return to power, should they revert to neoliberalism, adopt their own version of economic populism or perhaps something in between?
New York state Representative Zohran Mamdani, center, the frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral campaign. Mamdani’s progressive policy proposals have had a mixed reception among Democratic leaders as they prepare to counter Donald Trump in next year’s midterm Congressional elections.
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It’s been a little more than seven months since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House, and much has been made of his administration’s unprecedented actions when it comes to trade, geopolitics and domestic matters. There are plenty of detractors pointing to the downsides of the Republican’s moves, but we hear less about what the US should be doing instead. It raises the interesting question: what would the Democratic alternative be?