{"id":1524,"date":"2026-07-27T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:08:43","slug":"what-2-years-of-soul-searching-has-taught-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"What 2 Years of Soul-Searching Has Taught Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/69\/695444_1_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"What 2 Years of Soul-Searching Has Taught Dems\" title=\"What 2 Years of Soul-Searching Has Taught Dems\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>I worked on Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in 2020. I believed then, and still believe, in the version of this party that shows up, does the unglamorous work and governs like it actually matters more than it performs. That&#8217;s the party that passed the Affordable Care Act and clawed its way back from a financial collapse under Obama. It&#8217;s the party that rebuilt roads and bridges and brought manufacturing jobs home under Biden. It&#8217;s the party that delivered budget surpluses and lifted people out of poverty under Clinton. We know what this party can do when it governs instead of just posturing. So I&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in 2020. I believed then, and still believe, in the version of this party that shows up, does the unglamorous work and governs like it actually matters more than it performs. That&#8217;s the party that passed the Affordable Care Act and clawed its way back from a financial collapse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/69\/695444_1_.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2015,2971,482,2970],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dems","tag-soulsearching","tag-taught","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}