According to Shane Goldmacher, Future Forward said, the following Harris ad had ranked in the “100th percentile” — meaning it was the most effective — yet it had virtually never been aired.

🚨🚨🚨 OFFICIAL ZEITLIN BOOK RECOMMENDATION 🚨🚨🚨 LEFT ADRIFT BY TIMOTHY SHENK The story of the collapse of liberal politics from Little Rock to Macomb to Johannesberg and Jerusalem as told through the careers of two political consultants, Stan Greenberg and Doug Schoen

That's right folks, we're at six-red-siren-level quality here

They just don't build revisionists like this anymore: 'I shall now show in immense detail why everything ever argued on these topics is wrong'.

I tore through this entire book today in about three hours. Probably the single best global look at the movement of our collective politics from a world divided by class to one divided by culture and education. Any project of center left or left renewal has to grapple with this.

“There there's a lot going on right now. Take a deep breath. Read Left Adrift as a start. Just let it soak in. There's a lot of lessons in there” —Larry Wilmore ICYMI: Tim Shenk is on the latest #BlackOnTheAir to talk about his new book LEFT ADRIFT 🎧⤵️ theringer.com/2024/11/25/243…

It's a lot to unpack, but Tim Shenk does an excellent job laying out the foundational reasoning for why working class voters have turned away from the Democratic Party. #BlackOnTheAir instagram.com/reel/DDIvgJyyX…

First Sitman, then Zeitlin, now Yglesias. The coalition of Matts saying read this book grows ever stronger.

So great to see Left Adrift in excellent company here newrepublic.com/article/188911…

Trump's success in politics "never existed in isolation. It was a fundamental expression of a host of unresolved pathologies." Chris Lehmann in Books and the Arts on Tim Shenk Daniel Schlozman Sam Rosenfeld's books and the long unmaking of the Democratic PArty thenation.com/article/politi…

Brilliant idea to pair "Left Adrift" with "Hollow Parties" and let Chris Lehmann cook. thenation.com/article/politi…

Thanks to Gary Werskey for the kind of review that makes writing a book worthwhile—the kind where you see your ideas deftly summarized *and* learn something new about your own subject insidestory.org.au/the-good-fight/

my book comes out next month, which is both terrifying and exciting! you can preorder it here: bookshop.org/p/books/dispos…

Can't recommend highly enough Tim Shenk's book on the battle within the Democratic Party—told through the careers of two rival political consultants, Stan Greenberg and Doug Schoen—as the New Deal coalition broke apart in the 60s, 70s, and beyond globalreports.columbia.edu/books/left-adr…

This is tonight! See you there.

Al Jazeera - 5/2/2025 - Tim Shenk says Democrats need to treat Joe Biden the way Trump treated George W. Bush, admitting that running Biden in 2024 was a scandal Briahna Joy Gray - "I remember when (Biden's) eye bleed out during a town hall and nobody talked about it!"

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the AI catastrophe leads one way only: to great books and to face-to-face intellectual community