Con George Will gets it right

[Chris]

His libertarian turn has mostly been about social issues.

Rent-seeking is an economic issue.

[donttread]

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/09/con...embarrassment/

Yeah , that damned George Will tends to remind con posers that real fiscal cons don't borrow their way to hell or $#@! with the Constitution or grow government. Silly George Will!

[Tahuyaman]

Rent-seeking is an economic issue.

I said "mostly".

[The Sage of Main Street]

More importantly, he's precisely the sort of East Coast elitist douche bag who drove the GOP's base toward Trump. Despite Will's intelligence he remains steadfastly deaf to the frustrations of Republican voters.

Minds Chained Inside the Ivory Tower's Dungeon


Academically castrated intellectuals have as little to do with being intelligent as sportswriters have to do with being athletic.

[The Sage of Main Street]

No, you don't, and you most likely never will.

Will is a man with whom I disagree on just about everything, but he has principles.

See if Prager has a video explaining what they are, as you clearly have no clue.

Where There's a Will, There's No Way


The only principle that smug and snobbish pearl-clutching pontificator has is that he wants to be principal, with the rest of America giving him the awed respect he would demand from first-graders.

[The Sage of Main Street]

He's economically libertarian.

Like Leftist Weaklings Admiring Gangbanging Beasts

Willy-Nilly is a sissyboy nerd overcompensating by cheering on an ideology that glorifies unrestricted predatory GreedHeads out on a rampaging Lootfest.

[Chris]

Like Leftist Weaklings Admiring Gangbanging Beasts

Willy-Nilly is a sissyboy nerd overcompensating by cheering on an ideology that glorifies unrestricted predatory GreedHeads out on a rampaging Lootfest.

What's Will cheering on in this piece? ‘National conservatism’ is ‘Elizabeth Warren conservatism’:

Regimes, however intellectually disreputable, rarely are unable to attract intellectuals eager to rationalize the regimes’ behavior. America’s current administration has “national conservatives.” They advocate unprecedented expansion of government in order to purge America of excessive respect for market forces, and to affirm robust confidence in government as a social engineer allocating wealth and opportunity. They call themselves conservatives, perhaps because they loathe progressives, although they seem not to remember why.

The Manhattan Institute’s Oren Cass advocates “industrial policy” — what other socialists call “economic planning” — because “market economies do not automatically allocate resources well across sectors.”...

The national conservatives' pinup du jour is Fox News' Tucker Carlson, who, like the president he reveres, is a talented entertainer. Carlson says that what Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., calls "economic patriotism" sounds like "Donald Trump at his best."...

...Their agenda is much more ambitious than President Nixon’s 1971 imposition of wage and price controls, which were temporary fiascos. Their agenda is even more ambitious than the New Deal’s cartelization of industries, which had the temporary (and unachieved) purpose of curing unemployment. What national conservatives propose is government fine-tuning the economy’s composition and making sure resources are “well” distributed, as the government (i.e., the political class) decides, forever.

What socialists are so fond of saying, national conservatives are now saying: This time will be different. It never is, because government’s economic planning always involves the fatal conceit that government can aggregate, and act on, information more intelligently and nimbly than markets can....

[Peter1469]

Can you read the thread title?

Will is one of the few cons who hasn't gone full Trump and calls him out for what he is.

Yes I can read the thread title.

Now don't quote me if your response is going to be about something else. Understand?

Just dropping a link is gay.

[Peter1469]

If you read the article and got to his economic criticisms, you would have needed to read his diatribe about Trump's rhetoric and personality traits. It's clear that Will's problem is overwhelmingly personality driven.


Plus, George Will is more Republican than he is conservative.

He is a Blue Blood conservative. Not a conservative.

[Lummy]

Can you say something about your link?

The answer is no.