
288 | Michael Tomasky: Why Progressive, Middle-Out Economics Will Succeed Neoliberalism
The Realignment
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Is This Really a Question for the Activists? Is It Really Joe Biden's Fault?
There's a whole set of folks who are thinking about this transitional era question and it's a legitimate so you could good point. It doesn't seem to me that right now progressive economics is perfectly optimized to give the political response to that dilemma. We still have an economic job to do and that's to change the economic priorities of the country so that more money flows to the middle class. That's what middle out means and Joe Biden uses the phrase all the time the economy doesn't grow from the top down it grows from the middle out and the bottom up. The people below won't be having the same kind of party they had from the beginning of the Reagan era but they'll do fine
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