Baer and Cherny tell The Hill‘s Jonathan Kaplan:

“We think that the party is rich in tactics and poor in ideas,” said Baer, who worked as a speechwriter for former Vice President Al Gore. “What we really need for long-term success is deep, serious thinking about how we’re going to apply long-held progressive values to new challenges.”

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“I had started thinking about where all of the conservative ideas, for better or worse, had come from,” Cherny said. “Every big idea–Social Security privatization, supply-side economics, preemption, faith-based initiatives–had come out of one of their journals in their intellectual infrastructure.”

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