The Abundance Movement - Andrew Yang Newsletter

A couple months ago I interviewed Derek Thompson about his book with co-author Ezra Klein, Abundance. It was, in many ways, a positive, wonky book about reducing red tape and enabling ‘a liberalism that builds,’ literally and figuratively, to solve today’s problems. I’ve been supportive of many of these ideas as I agree that making government work better is a laudable goal. And their argument has filled a need, as “Abundance” has been on the bestseller list now for 10 straight weeks. In early May, more than a dozen members of Congress in both parties launched the Build America Caucus that was explicitly inspired by the ‘abundance movement.’ The new caucus is meant to focus on energy permitting and enabling housing and infrastructure to be built. So, we’re all good, right? Of course not. We’re talking about politics here. Ezra and Derek have been attacked as anti-government, libertarians, tools of big corporations, and reheated neoliberals among other mean things, mostly from the left.

A couple months ago I interviewed Derek Thompson about his book with co-author Ezra Klein, Abundance. It was, in many ways, a positive, wonky book about reducing red tape and enabling ‘a liberalism that builds,’ literally and figuratively, to solve today’s problems. I’ve been supportive of many of these ideas as I agree that making government work better is a laudable goal. And their argument has filled a need, as “Abundance” has been on the bestseller list now for 10 straight weeks. In early May, more than a dozen members of Congress in both parties launched the Build America Caucus that was