A Checkerboard Strategy for Regaining the Progressive Initiative

Gar Alperovitz
Posted: 01/07/2013 8:06 pm

President Obama is Time magazine's "Person of the Year" -- the first Democratic president to receive two consecutive popular-vote majorities since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet these are clearly tough times for progressives. Everything progressives have fought for is seemingly on the chopping block nationally, and in many states and cities. Programs are being cut; public assets are being sold off; school teachers are losing their jobs; unions are being attacked; pension and health care benefits are being slashed -- even Social Security is being challenged.

Progressives, in short, remain on the defensive.