One takeaway from the Trump era is that voters should be wary of political candidates whose chief asset is star quality, especially the malignant star quality of a minor-league mob boss. By now it ought to be obvious that celebrity cachet alone is a good reason to suspect the seriousness of media-anointed rock stars who are long on name recognition and hipster gimmickry but short on policy specifics .
You can’t say that about Andrew Yang, who enters the Democratic race with little name recognition but three big ideas: a universal basic income (UBI), Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” […]
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