4. In talking about "corporate bureaucrats"instead of capitalists, Brooks is playing the familiar game of using Weber as a shield against Marx. It's not the economic system of class inequality that's at fault but the cultural problem of bureaucracy.
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15. I actually think there's a good argument that GOP big money guys are being myopic & stupid here. Something like The Weekly Standard is a good investment as a Plan B for if Trump crashes and burns.
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16. I mean it's not too difficult to imagine whole Trump thing collapsing (through scandals & Trump's own personality). If that happens, it would be useful for GOP to have a group of people who can credibly say they opposed this all along.
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17. In general, Brooks column would've been better if it acknowledged the problem was TWS's business model & not some grand trend of "corporate bureaucrats."
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18. On the right, I think American Conservative, Modern Age &
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19. I was wondering why Brooks' column rubbed me the wrong way. I finally figured it out. Brooks wants GOP plutocrats to hand him & his buddies lots of dough to write whatever they want, no questions asked. That seems a bit entitled.
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This is basically the Polanyi Perplex, no? People think they have rights to things and processes. But the only rights the market recognizes are property rights. & the only property rights that carry social power are rights to resources useful in producing things for which the 1/
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rich have a serious Jones, no? But will Brooks and Podhoretz and Kristol and their marching battalions ever take their belief it is unfair the Anschutz has unfettered discretion over his property and generalize that sense of unfairness? No... 2/END
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Hm, I'm sure that some of them are that way, but I think current affairs are in significant part the product of 40+ years during which GOP billionaires invested more in long-term than their opponents.
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