..The current right-populism is in tune with essential wisdom that conservative intellectuals abandoned, deep lessons going back to Hobbes..
Ross and crew still have no conception of why they've lost the populists. I might as well add my pile on.. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/opinion/campaign-stops/what-the-rights-intellectuals-did-wrong.html?_r=0 …
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..That is, a stone-sober realism capable of parsing incentives and organization dynamics at the most macro level..
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....Conceiving a beautiful public policy is easy. Directing collective-action to achieve and make permanent said-policy not..
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..(and it’s not clear conservatives have even tried the latter)..
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..The conservative policy "successes" over the last 30 years are, comprehensively: a tax cut that lasted 6 years, and a $6tn war..
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..all while failing to stop the opposition from increasing their margin of lifetime dependent voters by 10%, & mortgaging $19Tn of capital..
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..Top minds behind these policies scoff at talk of election rigging because Trump doesn’t have a cartoon villain on video erasing ballots ..
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..That’s a quaint interpretation of rigging when Texas turns blue in 8 years and the state information organs are 6% conservative..
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..There is zero recognition of the fact they’ve spent 50+ years facilitating cooperation in a prisoners dilemma while the other side defects
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..Now that they’ve delivered us anarcho tyranny, they'd obligate the alt-right to a level of restraint not even Hobbes thought was owed?
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Undoubtedly. But Ross has had interesting things to say over the years. The Trump-confusion is so far out of proportion..
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