Hello! Welcome to The Permanent Campaign.
Democrats need to enter permanent campaign mode. We need to work every day, every year to craft and communicate big ideas that win elections. We need to successfully govern on those ideas to make life better for Americans, which will then help us win the next election. We need to shake up the business of governing and we certainly cannot build back to the way government worked before Trump and Musk took an axe to our institutions.
I read a lot of what other people are writing about policymaking, governing, politics, and, well, Democrats. I enjoy most of it! I do not see much writing by people who have experience developing a presidential campaign policy agenda or implementing policy in the federal government. I want to contribute my perspective, informed by my prior campaign and government work, as we collectively try to figure out the way forward for Democrats.
About Me
I’m Stef Feldman. I was Joe Biden’s national policy director for his winning 2020 presidential campaign. I spent four years as a senior policy advisor during his presidency. During his presidency, I first worked in the White House Domestic Policy Council on a range of domestic and economic policy issues. At the end of the Biden Administration, I served as White House Staff Secretary and established and led the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
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