The crisis of the American left obviously long predated Trump’s latest victory. Like many others on the left, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what we need to do first. We don’t have an organization. We don’t have a party. Where to start? I realized: we need a platform of ideas to push for. You can form an organization and maybe a party around those. But you have to start with ideas.
That’s what my next book is: a set of ideas. I hope the left can coalesce around my ideas but that’s not important. I want the left to coalesce around A set of ideas.
This is a thought experiment that started with a simple question: what if, instead of wasting our money on wars, we spent money on Americans? Then I started thinking: what if we completely changed national spending priorities to create a society that was better for most people? That’s what this set of ideas is, a specific set of suggestions of policies that could be theoretically enacted next week if the powers that be were interested in making life better for us. 
