Source: Yaschamounk
Ruy Teixeira’s closure of The Liberal Patriot—a platform designed to rebuild centrist Democratic thinking—shows a deeper crisis: the institutional infrastructure of moderate liberalism has become economically unviable at scale, unable to sustain itself through reader revenue or donor networks. This matters because it removes one of the few spaces attempting to make a positive case for center-left governance to college-educated voters, ceding narrative control on competence, growth, and institutional legitimacy precisely when both parties are fracturing along educational lines. The timing is acute: as AI reshapes labor markets and geopolitics, the absence of a coherent centrist intellectual apparatus leaves Democrats without a clear frame for technological governance beyond “more regulation” or “innovation at all costs.”