Rahm Emanuel on Pie-in-the-Sky Politics

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a press conference at the Corps’ Northerly Island Ecosystem Restoration Project site, Chicago, June 17, 2014. (U.S. Army Photo by Sarah Gross/Released)

Rahm Emanuel writing for Politico, 8 November:

For the life of me, I cannot understand why our presidential candidates are failing to heed the lessons from Democrats’ 2018 and 2019 victories.

The Democratic candidates . . . didn’t embrace pie-in-the-sky policy ideas or propose a smorgasbord of new entitlements.

They didn’t talk constantly about providing a guaranteed basic income. . . . Or eliminating private insurance and replacing it with a government-run health care system. . . . Or calling for the immediate and abrupt end of fossil fuels. Or vowing to seize guns from people’s homes.

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