2. There's some CAP specific stuff with the ThinkProgress fiasco but drama is playing against a background where the Democratic Party is moving in policy directions that the donor class (who fund the think tanks) might not want to go.
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3. Liberal think tanks, of course, continue to do good work, some of it left.
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4. But still, in recent months I've been struck by the fact that think tanks aren't quite as advanced as some of the candidates (Warren and Sanders, mainly). I look into reasons why in this feature for
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rhetiorical question I assume?
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The new political era of unionized workplaces?
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The answer is no. But Neera will still be a regular guest on all the awful news network panels, invited as the progressive.
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it's not like CAP is an ancient institution, itself
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And what are the alternatives?
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1 Smaller policy shops like people’s policy project that are not dependent on the donor class 2 reversing the contract with America era gutting of the congressional staffs so the think tank policy expertise is less crucial
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It's not a question of whether CAP is nimble, since CAP's purpose is to occupy the space of a real progressive think tank, absorb its donations and media attention, and then push for conservative policies as a "progressive organization"
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