Viewpoint: The urgency for Democrats and pro-democracy activists to build a new information ecosystem

By Karen Rubin

In assessing how Kamala Harris lost the election to Donald Trump, Stanley Feldman, a political scientist at Stony Brook, told Reach Out America that the campaigns didn’t matter. Not even the candidates mattered – which is remarkable considering the extraordinary contrast between the most vile, unfit candidate who made clear his indebtedness to billionaires, NeoNazis and Christian Nationalists and the most competent, dedicated, accomplished candidate who made clear her desire to promote an “Opportunity Economy” agenda so that people do not just survive, but thrive.