On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
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....
Last edited by Chris; 08-19-2019 at 04:13 PM.
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