Now What, Democrats? || Reed Galen on Turning a Wave Into Something That Lasts
A week after the election, Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen sat down with me for a Substack Live to ask the question every Democrat should be asking: now what?
Reed has spent the past year crisscrossing the country with Join the Union, and he came back with some hard truths for the party he’s been fighting alongside. We talk about why the next 18 months could be the most wide-open window in a generation, why Republicans fight on values while Democrats lead with bill numbers, and what it would take to turn a wave into something that lasts. And yes, I had a bone to pick with him about David Brooks.
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Reed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project and president of Join the Union, a coalition of nearly 200,000 grassroots volunteers working to rebuild democracy, contest elections, and empower communities. He also leads Civic Forum, which brings conversations about the American experiment to communities outside the big media markets. A former Republican strategist who served in the George W. Bush White House, Reed writes The Home Front on Substack.
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