Democrats have launched an effort to form a “Project 2029” initiative following their widespread condemnation of the Republican equivalent, “Project 2025.”
The project’s lead, Andrei Cherny, told The New York Times, “The oldest truism in politics is you can’t beat something with nothing.”
Cherney noted that the initiative will assemble the “Avengers of public policy, or the Justice League, depending on your personal persuasion: the best thinkers from across the spectrum.”
The Times reported that Democrats intend to “roll out an agenda over the next two years, in quarterly installments, through Mr. Cherny’s publication, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.” The installments will eventually be turned into a book, similar to Project 2025, the outlet explained, and “rally leading Democratic presidential candidates behind those ideas during the 2028 primary season.”
Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic, told the outlet that Project 2029 aims to renew the ideals of the Democratic Party.
“Liberalism has not done its best job of connecting with working-class people,” he said. “We want what we put out to shape the conversation in the primary season.”
Similarly, Neera Tanden, lead of the Center for American Progress, noted that Democrats need to focus on efforts supporting the working class. “Liberals underestimate the power of Trump’s ideas, and that we need better ideas to take on both Trumpism and the GOP. We get wrapped up in his personality. But he puts forward an idea like ‘No tax on tips,’ and that’s an important signifier that he is championing working-class people.”
