How Democrats Fumbled Crypto And How To Recover Before 2028 Clock Runs
The 2024 election delivered a stark lesson to a Democratic Party reeling from a sweeping political defeat of generational proportion: ignoring the transformative potential of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and other digital assets comes at a political cost. While the Republican party and President-Elect Donald Trump embraced bitcoin, specifically, as part of a broader platform of economic deregulation to clear the way for robust development of the web3 economy here in the United States, Democrats largely failed to engage, dismissing it as speculative, unregulated, or a vehicle for crime. The result? Crypto became a formidable political force, reshaping Congress,…