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The Ezra Klein Show · November 15, 2025 · 75m
The Case for Abundance
Ezra Klein (solo)
Klein makes the case for an 'abundance agenda' — that progressives should focus on building more (housing, clean energy, infrastructure) rather than just redistributing what exists. A manifesto for left-wing supply-side thinking.
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Klein traces how regulatory protections (environmental review, historic preservation, community input) expand over time, each new protection becoming the baseline for demands for additional protections.
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Progressives have become the party of 'no' — vetoing construction, development, and growth
Klein argues that progressive politics has been captured by NIMBY interests, environmental litigation, and process-oriented thinking that blocks the building of things progressives need (housing, transit, clean energy).Was this useful?