The Rebuild: How Democrats Can Build More, Lower Costs, and Win Again

Voters are clear: the cost of living is their top concern. But Democrats have lost sight of what's driving these costs up. While we focus on redistribution, subsidies, and corporate blame games, the real problem is simpler – we're not building enough. Red tape and bureaucratic gridlock are the true enemies of affordability.

What Democratic leaders in Blue states and cities need isn't more complaints about opposition or blind defense of bureaucracy—it's a commitment to building our way out of this crisis. We need to look in the mirror, reform our processes, and focus on delivering results.

That's why we're launching The Rebuild, and we're calling it that for two essential reasons.

First, we need to build our way out of our living cost problems – not spend our way out of them.

Second, we need to rebuild the Democratic Party's record of performance and voters' trust in our ability to deliver at every level of government.

This is about making life in Blue states and cities better and less expensive.

Voters don’t just want good intentions; they want results. If Democrats don’t rebuild trust in their ability to govern, they won’t win.

We’re here to explore how to build more, lower costs, and make government work for the people it serves. Join us.

The Rebuild is a project of Chamber of Progress, a center-left tech industry association working to ensure that all people benefit from technological leaps.

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@Middlebury Professor. @ProgressChamber Senior Advisor. Author of Competitiveness and Death (2021). Studies trade and the tech sector. Vermont YIMBY.
Director of Economic Analysis at Chamber of Progress