{"id":2921,"date":"2025-06-11T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/rep-auchincloss-abundance-co-author-derek-thompson-attack-demand-progress-poll-that-shows-abundance-is-bad-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:03:17","slug":"rep-auchincloss-abundance-co-author-derek-thompson-attack-demand-progress-poll-that-shows-abundance-is-bad-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Auchincloss & Abundance Co-Author Derek Thompson Attack Demand Progress Poll that Shows Abundance is Bad Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Rep. Jake Auchincloss and \u201cAbundance\u201d co-author Derek Thompson spoke at Welcome Fest where they attacked a recent poll<\/a> released by Demand Progress showing that populist arguments are significantly more resonant with voters than \u201cAbundance\u201d arguments. On stage, Auchincloss <\/a>described the poll conducted by YouGov and independent strategist and pollster Dan Cohen as \u201cbad faith\u201d and attacked Demand Progress and \u201cthe left,\u201d saying that \u201cthey\u2019re the ones who are in the pocket of these Big Tech companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAuchincloss and Thompson are living in a bubble where they can call for \u2018Abundance\u2019 to be the policy agenda of the Democratic Party but also dismiss evidence showing why that would be a bad idea. They attacked us because our poll popped this bubble with hard, objective data showing that populism resonates with voters far more than the \u2018Abundance\u2019 message. <\/p>\n

Demand Progress has a long, documented history of vocally calling for the breakup of Big Tech behemoths and supporting policies that will end their monopolies. Rep. Auchincloss\u2019s laughable claim that we\u2019re \u2018in the pocket of Big Tech\u2019 exposes his own insecurities about being on stage at an event financed by Big Tech billionaires.<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s transparent attempt to muddy the waters by saying \u2018people are these really complex things\u2019 also exposes his own game of hand-waiving away any criticism of \u2018Abundance.\u2019 Our poll shows with hard, clear data that voters\u2019 opinions are not complicated\u2014they just overwhelmingly support populism over \u2018Abundance.\u2019 In fact, we specifically tested hybrid messaging, which confirmed the \u2018Abundance\u2019 platform comes with a clear political cost. <\/p>\n

The data is clear. \u2018Abundance\u2019 is a losing argument and all the insults and hand-waiving from Auchincloss and Thompson are just signs that they know they\u2019re pushing something voters don’t want.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Rep. Jake Auchincloss and \u201cAbundance\u201d co-author Derek Thompson spoke at Welcome Fest where they attacked a recent poll released by Demand Progress showing that populist arguments are significantly more resonant with voters than \u201cAbundance\u201d arguments. On stage, Auchincloss described the poll conducted by YouGov and independent strategist and pollster Dan Cohen as \u201cbad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}