Progressives should aim to design programs that empower bureaucrats with sufficient discretion to execute tasks efficiently while maintaining a balance between public participation and effective outco

“we should be thinking not only about the things that we hope to do, but we should be thinking about how we plan to design those programs in a way so that we can actually deliver so that we are building the sorts of programs which we used to build which gave a fair amount of discretion and power to b”

The speaker observes that media outlets often attempt to undermine progressive administrations by characterizing their leadership as an accidental or temporary phenomenon.

“from from the very beginning, the the corporate media has just been out to separate me from my base, but also to characterize my leadership and administration as some sort of flu.”