David Kusnet
@DavidKusnet
Was chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. Author, Love the Work, Hate the Job & Speaking American & co-author, America Needs a Raise. Tweets my own.
This has been online for some time. In print edition of @nytimes today. Showing my age, but will read this carefully, pausing & underlining. In better world, would have impact that a major piece by nation's leading newspaper would have had decades ago. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/mag…
How Democrats should talk:
The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. - James Talarico
"Mr. Netanyahu, let in the food."
Today I’m calling clearly and simply: Mr. Netanyahu, let in the food. Mr. Netanyahu, stop blocking humanitarian aid and causing a man-made starvation in Gaza. The times of the United States providing you a blank check are over.
My latest: Trump opened the door to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. He needs to close it and stop feeding the Israeli right's fantasies of conquest, or he will never achieve the peace he claims to want. Please read the whole thing. Gift link below.
One reason @RahmEmanuel that the American dream is unaffordable is because NAFTA hollowed out towns & China was let into the WT0 & allowed to cheat. We don't need more of the same platitudes on the economy. We need a Marshall plan for 21st century America!
BREAKING: Rahm Emanuel just perfectly broke down what went wrong for Democrats in November and how we can fix it. This is amazing.
This tweet seems even timelier today. Workers care about quality. Owners not so much. Big point of my book, "Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier than Ever" (Wiley 2008). epi.org/publication/bo…
From Boeing to Washington Post, the people who do the work are more loyal to the organization's mission than the people who own or run the organization. Unions are about more than Samuel Gompers' "more." They're also about "better."
💥Former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon warns Israel's serving security chiefs that shooting and killing when life is not in danger, forced evacuation of human populations, systematic destruction of homes, "concentrating" people in a so-called "humanitarian city" are war crimes,…
Hunter Biden deserves our compassion but not our attention. Saying this as a fan of the most pro-worker, pro-union President in recent memory. npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-…
Imagine if a President Bernie Sanders had removed the Wall Street Journal from the press pool. thehill.com/homenews/admin…
Now we see who really is harming dogs & cats. latimes.com/environment/st…
Anyone actively promoting or operationalizing "relocation" of the Palestinians of Gaza should be stripped of their posturing and exposed as what they are: advocates of ethnic cleansing. They deserve to be ostracised. If that applies to the head of the Mossad, so be it.
A truly outrageous and sickening request from the Netanyahu government. The U.S. should not be complicit in or use ANY governmental, American taxpayer resources to aid and abet what amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians from Gaza. We cannot stand for this.…
Somewhere Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite & Norman Lear -- whom CBS courageously supported -- are discussing the decay of great institutions. #CBS @peoplefor nytimes.com/2025/07/17/bus…
There are 2 populist messages: Left Populism: "They're robbing you blind." Right Populism: "They think they're better than you." Joan C. Williams' Outclassed tells how progressives can become economic populists -- not foils for cultural populism. @monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/17/how…
As Trump & Senate Republicans pack federal courts with rubber-stampers, remembering I urged Democrats to focus on how reactionary judges can harm regular Americans. My article appeared in @newrepublic. Alarmed @NRO nationalreview.com/bench-memos/ku…
As a marketer whose worldview was forged in the 70s & 80s, Trump could suggest rebrand to New Coke. cnn.com/2025/07/17/bus…
"Will no one rid me of this troublesome Fed Chair?" nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/…
Cuomo, Adams, Sliwa & the 4th guy are going to burn up a lot of rich folks' stop-Mamdani money. Will be good for NYC economy.
NEW: Sources tell me and our partners at @NewsNation that @andrewcuomo will announce this week that he’s mounting an actual independent campaign, w/ understanding that whoever is not leading against @ZohranKMamdani should drop out in September, himself included. @PIX11News
Remember when folks used to think Bill Clinton, as POTUS, would speak for too long? But, unlike Trump's off-topic, middle-school ramblings (the "weave"😆), Clinton was brilliant & loved pontificating, in depth, about policy issues directly relevant to the point he was making.