Brimelow was at Fortune or Forbes at the time, right? And do you interpret Friedman as saying anything much different there about democracy that classic constitutional theorist have said through the ages about factions and the logic of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs?
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I am far from being a knee-jerk defender of Friedman, but one should not rule out a priori the possibility that in the instances you reference Brimelow was mischaracterizing Friedman
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More than possible but I think there was a traffic of ideas there which is worth researching.
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