Ezra Klein's piece in the New York Times examines the Democratic Party's struggle to attract working-class voters, mainly due to its failure to tackle pressing issues like the housing crisis and infrastructure projects such as California's high-speed rail. He argues that to prevent voters from gravitating towards authoritarian figures, the party needs to demonstrate effective governance and provide tangible benefits. Klein's criticisms of current struggles in the high-speed rail project are challenged, noting ongoing efforts to resolve bureaucratic hurdles and emphasizing that project delays are not solely the fault of Democrats.
If liberals do not want Americans to turn to the false promise of strongmen, they need to offer the fruits of effective government. They need to offer Americans a liberalism that builds.
Klein spends three paragraphs blaming the delays to the HSR project on the decision to build first in the Central Valley... Construction of the first segment of France's enormously successful TGV, for example, was built in farmland between Paris and Lyon.
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