t's The Global Economy, Stupid

Worries us too.

TomPaine.com - It's The Global Economy, Stupid:

The further into the election cycle we get, the more a 1990s nostalgia creeps in among some progressives. You remember the 1990s, right? Those halcyon days when regular folks concerned themselves with health care, the stock market and “the economy, stupid,” while only elites worried about global affairs?

I don’t remember the 1990s quite like that, either. But when I see as wise and influential a progressive as E.J. Dionne writing that

'"the fact that so much of the [June 3 Democratic] debate concentrated on international relations reflects the imposition of a false high-mindedness that sees presidential-level discussions as serious only if they focus primarily on foreign policy. This throws off the balance in our politics."

I get worried.