Gary Winslett

There's a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric from the right these days. It needs pushing back on, hard.
By building houses, providing healthcare and childcare, and helping put food on the table, immigrants make America more affordable!

New article from me today.

www.therebuild.pub/p/immigrants...

There's a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric from the right these days. It needs pushing back on, hard.
By building houses, providing healthcare and childcare, and helping put food on the table, immigrants make America more affordable!

New article from me today.

www.therebuild.pub/p/immigrants...

Immigrants make America greater.

Opinion | Trump’s trade war isn’t over yet A court ruling paused Trump’s tariffs, but the White House has ways to continue the fight.

I've got a new article in the Washington Post out today explaining what exactly happened yesterday with the Court of International Trade's decision against Trump, what it means, and what the Trump administration's options are moving forward.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I appreciate this piece from @garywinslett.bsky.social & @tahrajirari.bsky.social about Medicaid and what it means for rural communities. I particularly like this callout that the point is to kick people off of Medicaid to achieve the "savings."
open.substack.com/pub/colrebui...

For Dems, right-to-work challenges some Dems’ ideological commitment to labor unions. Permitting reform requires confronting environmentalists and the housing story promotes Abundance politics. It’s easier (but wrong) to blame NAFTA + neoliberalism. 4/4

Republicans want to think we can tariff our way back to Ohio circa 1975. We cannot. They really want trade to be the culprit for Rust Belt decline; it mostly isn’t. They are also unwilling to admit how much immigration has helped the South. 3/4

It was a combination of right-to-work, cheap electricity (driven in part by fossil fuels), fast permitting, more housing construction and thus relatively lower housing costs, immigration, and globalization. This challenges both parties…. 2/4

Opinion | Manufacturing is thriving in the South. Here’s why neither party can admit it. Both parties are afraid to confront the real story behind manufacturing losses.

I’ve got an article out in the Washington Post today explaining how the South is doing so well in manufacturing and why neither party wants to talk about it. The #1 auto exporting state isn’t Michigan, it’s Alabama. How did that happen? 1/4

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Potentially unpopular opinion: Conclave was pretty good but would have been better without the Benitez storyline.
It makes no sense, stretches credulity past the breaking point, and detracts from the movie.

California’s Anti-Development Addiction There’s a maddening dynamic going on in California housing policy.

"California voters rate the high cost of housing as their top concern." But new housing construction in the state has faced political hurdles for decades, and they aren't going away. @garywinslett.bsky.social explores some of the reasons [The Rebuild]

You’ve heard of Black Tuesday.
We’re about to get Orange Monday.

Do we need to go through a podcast? We can if you want but but, alternatively, I’ll happily talk to you on Zoom. We can both record and each put it up on YouTube or wherever. Send me an email. We’ll set it up.

I've got a new piece out today on Abundance and antitrust Some of the critics of Abundance politics have argued that it isn't sufficiently anti-monopoly. But it is. In fact, I would argue that Abundance is the real anti-monopoly position.

www.therebuild.pub/p/will-the-r...

It's worth pointing out that fixing the travails of places like Detroit was a big part of Trump's political appeal. And yet, apart from maybe Buffalo, no major American city is more connected to Canada and more hurt by Trump's baseless antagonism toward Canada than Detroit.

In their new book "Abundance" Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein have written a timely, compelling manifesto for progressives who want to build a bright future.
It is *the book* laying out the case for Up-Left politics.
Here’s my review of it.

www.therebuild.pub/p/building-a...

Being so bad at diplomacy you infuriate the Canadians is even more of an anti-accomplishment than being so bad at business you bankrupt a casino.

I can have friendly disagreements with people who want Medicare for All.
I have nothing to say to people who daydream of putting their enemies to the guillotine.
There’s a difference.
The first group is what debate is for.
The second group is what police are for.

“My social enemies should be summarily executed French Revolution-style” is an evil position that’s totally incompatible with the rule of law, basic liberty, and human decency. Beyond the pale.

I said what I said.

Georgia’s moment of truth: Protesters demand Western path not Russian past The ruling party denies any Russian link, but its actions raise questions about Georgia's path to the EU.

Georgia's moment of truth: Protesters demand Western path, not Russian past

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey look, $165 million in one export in under a week!
People are used to thinking about trade in goods but services matter too.
Moana 2 is an export every bit as much as a car is and the animators who worked on it are 🇺🇸 workers just as much as if they were on an assembly line.

RFK Jr. kryptonite.

One of the great things about being 37 is you’re the target demographic for a lot of media.
For example, I’m about to start watching a baking show that combines Harry Potter and British Bake-off, and it’s totally aimed at me and my wife and I’m 100% cool with that.

These results suggest that Dems would benefit from getting tougher on border security, tougher on crime, and more supply-side and consumer-oriented in their economic orientation.

There are lefties who will call that Republican-Lite. Ignore them. Listen to swing state voters.

The world is getting a lot better in a lot of ways.

Believe it or not, the world is both richer *and* more equal than it was in 1988.

These results suggest that Dems would benefit from getting tougher on border security, tougher on crime, and more supply-side and consumer-oriented in their economic orientation.

There are lefties who will call that Republican-Lite. Ignore them. Listen to swing state voters.

👇🎯 Instead of spending the last four years doing the mercantilism with a human face & pretending that we could rewind the 🇺🇸 economy to the 1960s, Biden should have spent it investing in programs that would move more people into sectors like health care where there are good jobs & high demand.

This is very welcome news. Factories are so automated now that broad-based manufacturing employment isn't going to return. So for men to succeed in the labor market, they can't let outdated gender stereotypes dissuade them from good jobs, including in nursing.

Believe it or not, the world is both richer *and* more equal than it was in 1988.