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Look, I'm not agreeing with this admin's policy direction, and I certainly don't want the world they envision that this policy will drive us toward—there's plen
by Spivak 1y ago
Look, I'm not agreeing with this admin's policy direction, and I certainly don't want the world they envision that this policy will drive us toward—there's plenty of reasonable skepticism that it won't even have the desired knock on effects they're hoping for, but I do think the folks at the helm know broadly what the levers they're pulling do. I worry the level of stupidity that their critics project on them is both inaccurate and is so severe as to essentially excuse their actions and absolve them of any responsibility for them.
- CalChris 1y agoWe disagree. To reduce it to a few words, I think that you see policy (even if misguided policy) and I just see populism, entertainment if you will. I think the purpose of the article is to remind us what mercantilism is. But again, I don't see this as mercantilism which has a coherence, and instead just as populism which doesn't. Putting a heroin addict in charge of Health and Human Services and shutting down vaccine development is not policy. It's populism.