TLP Signing Off
After more than five years and nearly 1500 newsletters, this is The Liberal Patriot’s final post. We tried our best to make a non-profit media model work with entirely free analysis and commentary published throughout our existence. But it turns out upsetting the partisan applecart on multiple issues is not a particularly good fundraising or business model.
We have no complaints and feel fortunate to have had a place to regularly publish our political and policy ideas since 2020. Hopefully, TLP’s insights and arguments made some difference in the Democratic Party’s strategic discourse and in wider political debates—or at least got people to look at matters in a different light and reconsider some of their positions.
To all our great contributors over the years, thanks so much for the provocative political discussions, nice writing, and interesting policy ideas.
To all our readers, thank you for sticking with us and offering financial support when possible. (We ended paid subscriptions a few weeks ago, and pro-rated refunds were automatically issued to paid subscribers, so we should be all fair and square.)
In the end, TLP’s mix of economic nationalism and cultural moderation—or a blend of social and Christian democracy shorn of identity politics and radicalism—didn’t really have a home in either political party. Although we’re not sure what comes next, we’ll continue to press for TLP’s “pro-worker, pro-family, pro-America” agenda across party and ideological lines, whatever we end up doing in the future.
TLP’s archives will remain open and free to all. Who knows, a few posts might be relevant when the 2028 primaries and general election kick into gear. Thanks again for reading over the past five plus years.
Take care — John
