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The Free Democrat

Erik Carter

A newsletter about building a smarter, freer Democratic Party—rooted in liberaltarian ideas, pro-market policy, civil liberties, and state capacity that works.

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Why Mamdani’s Real Test May Be His Own Movement

In “The Left’s Trump?” I argued that the most interesting thing about New York’s democratic socialist mayor may not be his socialism. It may be his ability to change what progressives think they are allowed to believe. Mamdani has begun tal...

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The Left’s Trump?

In a comment on Facebook, Adam Kinzinger made an intriguing argument about Zohran Mamdani. The democratic socialist mayor of New York may be more important to the future of the Democratic Party than either his admirers or his critics realiz...

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When Deportations Get More “Complicated”

One theme running through my recent posts on “purple pragmatism” is that ideological consistency often becomes harder when theories encounter reality. Immigration enforcement offers an unusually vivid example. It is relatively easy to say t...

8 days ago
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A Real World Case for Political Heterodoxy

One of the stranger features of American politics is that parties often seem more interested in making their members agree with one another than in figuring out whether their ideas are working. That is the problem at the heart of a recent e...

9 days ago
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When Fox News Has to Defend CNN From the White House

For years, conservatives warned that the greatest threat to free speech did not necessarily look like an old-fashioned censorship board. Government officials could accomplish much the same thing indirectly by pressuring social-media compani...

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    Erik Carter is a lawyer, financial planner, and political activist who has provided political and financial commentary on numerous media outlets such as MTV, Time Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Fox Business.

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