Baron guides clients through the most challenging political terrain. The firm advises members of the Fortune 100, the largest private businesses, and the USG.
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What policies will Democratic congressional leaders prioritize as they take control of Congress in early 2027? According to Baron’s latest research identifying the 20 “Super Influencers” on the organizations guiding the Left, reducing income inequality by increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy will be among their first orders of business.
“Class solidarity, rather than identity politics, drives a strong majority of the Super Influencers. Following President Donald J. Trump’s 2024 victory, Democratic strategists and politicians alike assessed that an over-emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues contributed in large part to their electoral defeat. This list of Super Influencers reflects the Party’s priorities: championing organized labor, lowering health care costs, and taxing the wealthy.”
Read our full analysis here: baronpa.com/library/the-demo…
Baron identified @stacyfmitchell as an Antitrust Super Influencer in 2022; now, she has appeared on our latest list of Intellectual Super Influencers on the Left. Read the firm’s latest brief on the individuals most influential on the organizations that guide the Left’s policy agenda .
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@arindube , provost professor of economics at UMass Amherst, is Baron’s top Intellectual Super Influencer on the Left. The firm’s latest brief identifies the individuals most influential on the organizations that guide the Left’s core policy agenda and analyzes their research and priorities. Baron’s research suggests that, where consensus exists on the Left, it is on redistributionist economic policies.
“Pro-labor and other anti-business academics – not identitarian culture warriors – currently dominate the left-of-center intellectual landscape. This finding signals a Left-Right populist policy convergence that envisions a larger role for government in charting the course of American life, especially by increasing wages and benefits for workers."
In advance of the next test of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s balancing act between President Trump and the conservative economic establishment, revisit Baron’s July profile to learn about the decades of intellectual formation, networking, loyalty, and ambition that are shaping his approach to his role.
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Baron's latest research identifies the 20 “Super Influencers” who most inform the policy leaders of the Nationalist-Populist movement.
"Departing from the previous generation of conservatives who focused on broad themes such as GDP growth, free trade, and democratization, the current group of Super Influencers prioritizes improving day-to-day conditions for average Americans who live outside of major cities. The intellectual heavy hitters among the Nationalist-Populists eschew global aspirations and focus instead on policies that achieve practical and measurable advancements, such as replacing traffic stops with roundabouts to improve safety."
Read the full brief here: baronpa.com/library/towns-an…
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"Three of the Super Influencers are at @FamStudies (including @BradWilcoxIFS). As Jonathan Baron put it, 'The Institute for Family Studies is killing it.'"
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What the New Right Actually Reads - A Washington firm analyzed 29,000 citations across seven new right institutions and ranked me their #1 "policy Super Influencer" aaronrenn.com/p/what-the-new…
Baron's number-one ranked Super Influencer on Nationalist-Populist policy organizations: @aaron_renn of aaronrenn.com.
The firm's latest episode of the Political Risk Brief outlines our just-concluded analysis of the people who most influence think tanks associated with the Trump-led coalition.
From the conversation: “[U]nderstanding who are the super influencers within that policy community is extremely important to understanding the political present, the political future, and how that future might unfold in the Trump era and beyond. And when I say Super Influencers, it doesn't mean that a given influencer has to be from within the nationalist populist right. It means that they are a super influencer on the nationalist populist right.”
From The Political Risk Brief: Who’s Right?, Aug 13, 2026
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Congratulations to our Baron colleague Jeremy Furchtgott on his important opinion editorial – "Reform and Open China on America's Terms" – in today's @WSJ Key excerpt:
"To willing partners in China, America should offer terms seeking transparency into ownership and supply chains, cooperation with foreign regulatory investigations, compliance with U.S. sanctions and export controls, and reciprocal access for American companies. Chinese companies and jurisdictions that meet those standards should be rewarded with preferential treatment in the U.S. market."
Jeremy's leadership of our firm's China practice has produced groundbreaking results for our public and private sector clients. Building on this impressive foundation, much more to come. wsj.com/opinion/reform-and-o…
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Insightful research and analysis from @BaronDC20005 about the most influential policy voices in the emerging New Right/MAGA/America First space. No spoilers, but #1 both surprised and encouraged me (I guessed #2 and #3). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
“Once labor displacement triggers revolutionary violence, the pattern can endure for generations. Today’s policymakers should learn from this experience and consider measures to manage the looming upheaval in labor markets. Otherwise, the AI revolution might be of a very different and terrible kind than the one so many expect.”
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Not the AI Revolution You Are Looking For
"Today’s policymakers should learn from [past] experiences and consider measures to manage the looming upheaval in labor markets. Otherwise, the AI revolution might be of a very different, terrible kind than the one so many expect."
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Listen to the latest episode of the Political Risk Brief...
Hillbillies and Hipsters: The AI Revolution
"Early evidence suggests highly educated workers might already be experiencing AI-driven labor displacement. While the economic data does not yet support claims of wider job losses, such trends could generate a new form of economic disaffection among professionals and creative workers, much as globalization contributed to disaffection among segments of the working class. This episode explores whether a “Hillbilly-Hipster” coalition will emerge from these shared grievances and how such a realignment would reshape American politics."
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“The question we are going to explore [in this episode] is why these tensions are producing, today in a way they haven’t before, what appears to be the potential for a true break between the United States and Europe.”
Listen to the full episode of "The EU Invites Disaster" here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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