Adam Jentleson
@adamjentleson.bsky.social
Author, Kill Switch from W.W. Norton + a new 📕 coming soon, “Democrats are good” guy, ex-Fetterman COS and Harry Reid Deputy COS
The process before us will not always be tidy, but it will always be interesting. Regardless of whether you agree with us—and especially if you do not—we invite you to come along.
Our Mission: To Spark A Realignment
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The process before us will not always be tidy, but it will always be interesting. Regardless of whether you agree with us—and especially if you do not—we invite you to come along.
By building a home for bold, creative thinking that is free to range across ideological boundaries, we will replace today’s reign of orthodoxy with a spirit of open, winning heterodoxy.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
By building a home for bold, creative thinking that is free to range across ideological boundaries, we will replace today’s reign of orthodoxy with a spirit of open, winning heterodoxy.
At most, realignments come along once a generation. Sparking one is a daunting task, and it starts with building infrastructure. While we do not claim to have all the answers—yet—we do claim to have created the institution that will discover them.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
At most, realignments come along once a generation. Sparking one is a daunting task, and it starts with building infrastructure. While we do not claim to have all the answers—yet—we do claim to have created the institution that will discover them.
Ultimately, Supermajority Thinking leads to a pro-growth, pluralist, all-terrain populism—a populism that can go anywhere, and is not artificially cordoned off to a certain set of issues.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ultimately, Supermajority Thinking leads to a pro-growth, pluralist, all-terrain populism—a populism that can go anywhere, and is not artificially cordoned off to a certain set of issues.
Third: Supermajority Thinking is attentive to the American people, but sees public opinion as malleable.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Third: Supermajority Thinking is attentive to the American people, but sees public opinion as malleable.
Second: Supermajority Thinking requires starting from first principles and following them wherever they lead—including when they take us outside of traditional ideological categories.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Second: Supermajority Thinking requires starting from first principles and following them wherever they lead—including when they take us outside of traditional ideological categories.
First: Supermajority Thinking is a necessary precondition of stable, majority-rule governance and policymaking.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
First: Supermajority Thinking is a necessary precondition of stable, majority-rule governance and policymaking.
We are guided by a concept called Supermajority Thinking, which has three underlying ideas.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We are guided by a concept called Supermajority Thinking, which has three underlying ideas.
We believe that ideas matter. From the New Deal era to the Reagan revolution, realignments happen downstream of the positions leaders take. To forge the next realignment, we have created a home for creative thinkers dedicated to disrupting today’s paradigm of purity, smallness, and fear.
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We believe that ideas matter. From the New Deal era to the Reagan revolution, realignments happen downstream of the positions leaders take. To forge the next realignment, we have created a home for creative thinkers dedicated to disrupting today’s paradigm of purity, smallness, and fear.
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Ya small results = null result is pretty unpersuasive in this context. If the claim is "it doesn't matter if you put up a moderate or a non moderate in a purple district" , that claim seems to be dubious. If the claim is "putting up a moderate doesn't guarantee a win".. fair enough I guess?
August 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ya small results = null result is pretty unpersuasive in this context. If the claim is "it doesn't matter if you put up a moderate or a non moderate in a purple district" , that claim seems to be dubious. If the claim is "putting up a moderate doesn't guarantee a win".. fair enough I guess?
three points is a lot!
August 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
three points is a lot!
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This is why I emphasized "study public opinion accurately."
Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
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Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
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Nearly every Democratic platform policy is broadly popular and nearly every Republican platform policy is broadly unpopular. I don't understand what you're suggesting would be different. Even if no Democrat held any unpopular position, Fox and Co would claim they did anyway.
May 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is why I emphasized "study public opinion accurately."
Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
bsky.app/profile/jere...
Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
bsky.app/profile/jere...