Jon Saxton
jonsax21.bsky.social
Jon Saxton
@jonsax21.bsky.social
speechwriter, baritone, pragmatic progressive, All-in on the fight for Democracy, Substack Newsletter: https://jonthinks.substack.com
Doesn’t it matter what the Dems might do to improve their chances? Seems like the swing could be much, much higher if the dems actually offered a compelling, substantive alternative to abandoning democracy . . . I take this on in my own latest post:

open.substack.com/pub/jonthink...
The Democratic Party Must Become the Party of “Making it in America”
And this means making Democracy a living force for the betterment of all
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reposted by Jon Saxton
the other interesting thing about reading your work over time is you can see ideas emerge. like, i wrote this in 2024 but you can see the idea percolating early on in my tenure at the times. it just took a few years for me to be able to actually articulate it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Jon Saxton
perhaps there are things going on in the structure of american politics that cannot be solved by a level of internal party discipline that lenin couldn't achieve?
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM