“Abundance” liberalism is the new hot idea among the liberal pundit-chattering class. Left-wing politics are at odds with the goal of abundance, though, which is why Republican states are models for increasing abundance and why Democratic states fail in that regard.

The new framing of “abundance” stems from Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein, who have put forward a new book painting an idealized liberal future that will never come. Klein has been on a media tour, touting his views as if he made some groundbreaking discovery that Democrats are bad at building things, which took him to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast.