Pritzker needs to:
A. Get himself a personal trainer
B. Be willing to be a class traitor and have the kind of steel in his spine that FDR had when he said he welcomes their hatred.
If he loses the weight, does more townhalls and voter outreach where he actually listens to what people want, he's got this shyt in the bag.
Just a few policies that would get him some motion:
1. Moratorium on new immigrants with the exception of refugees fleeing war zones like Ukraine and Palestine. Existing immigrants get a more streamlined path to citizenship. If youve been here more than 5 years and don't have papers, you get them. If you leave the country for more than 6 months your citizenship expires and you have to try and apply again.
2. Tax cut on all Americans making less than 150k a year. Coupled with a RE INTRODUCTION of older Tax rates.
3. Increased federal minimum wage
4. Student loan forgiveness for people in degrees related to STEM.
5. A.I. regulation bill. Any company replacing its workers with A.I. will have corporate taxes Increased.
6. Massive subsidies on medical care, effectively creating a public option.
7. Federal jobs program to fund the construction of new infrastructure(including nuclear power plants, windmills, battery factories, solar energy) and modernization of existing infrastructure.
8. A new tax on companies that engage in stock buybacks.
9. Taxes on any bank loan recieved when stock was used as collateral.
10. A ban on corporations buying housing. Corporations are only allowed to buy real estate for offices, and they would have to prove the work cannot be done remotely.
11. Heavily subsidized daycare.
12. 50% subsidy for the cost of a down payment on a first time home purchase.
13. A revamping of the tariffs including meetings with China to work out new trade deals.
Pritzker has the potential to be the complete opposite of Trump. A billionaire that understands that if more and more people hate his kind, it will make life much harder for him. Instead he will be willing to take a hit financially if it means that his money can grow back several times over as the economy gets back on track with people working and spending.
"Who's going to pay for that" is bullshyt. As long as the dollar remains the world reserve currency, he can use modern monetary theory to effectively just print more money. The dollar won't be devalued because there IS no other currency that is even close to as widely circulated and held as the dollar. It is THE currency used to buy petroleum which is the bedrock of our entire modern civilization.
He needs to have the kind of courage that only someone with millions of dollars has. If he pulls it off, he will go down as one of the most influential presidents of our lifetimes.