# What America Needs Is a Liberalism That Builds

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Ezra Klein]]
- Full Title: What America Needs Is a Liberalism That Builds
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opinion/biden-liberalism-infrastructure-building.html

## Highlights
- Government isn’t intrinsically inefficient. It has been made inefficient. And not just by the right:
- So this is what I have become certain of: Democrats spend too much time and energy imagining the policies that a capable government could execute and not nearly enough time imagining how to make a government capable of executing them. It is not only markets that have failed.