Strong episode benefitting from hosts having covered this topic before & having depth. One issue worth more exploration is the ties to cryptocurrency in the National conservative crowd, which at the very least suggests a tension (since crypto undermines nation state).https://twitter.com/MatthewSitman/status/1463712653621268480 …
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They like to sell it as pseudo-populism, though: access to banking-type services without a bank. But the whole thing, as it currently exists, is bogus: With no price stability and sky-high transaction costs, it isn't really a currency at all.
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Another issue re crypto is the way it extends the already bizarre coalition around the gold standard. For rw evangelicals, this is almost a theological issue. See
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Crypto is all about economic elites untethering themselves from Nation States...being sold to the proletariat as one sells lottery tickets to em to keep them believing they can be rich
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So is Brexit. Some on the British left tried to make this argument. Didn’t work, obviously.
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