Yes, you can get tax cuts and fewer government programs. But it is at a profound cost. There is no robust internal check on precisely the kind of autocracy Hayek warned us about. Do you close your eyes and hope it all goes back post-Trump? 2/
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At what point do you realize that--right or wrong--there just isn't a real pro-market party in the U.S? That your views are irrelevant politically? How long do you stick with the GOP, knowing you will get a lot of white nationalism, anti-trade, presidential winner-picking? 3/
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If the choice is to pick the lesser of two anti-market parties and stay with the GOP, why? Are tax cuts and lower regs worth destroying a global trading system and creating precedent for explicit cronyism and a President who intervenes in private market decisions? 4/
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I know there is a heroic story for pro-market folks, about the years in the wilderness in the 1960s followed by triumph in the 1980s. But doesn't this moment re-cast that narrative more darkly? Dare I say it: isn't, even, Keynes better than Trump? 5/
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I know some have chosen to be anti-Trump and--with greater enthusiasm--anti-anti-Trump, making fun of the libs and their hysteria. That strikes me as a dodge. Eager to hear thoughts
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Of course, this is not entirely new. The racist Southern Strategy and Willie Horton and dog whistles and on and on. But free-marketeers once could persuade themselves they were the heart of the party, using the hicks for electoral gain. Now it's the other way round. END
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I was recently reading Norman Mailer’s essay about debating Buckley Jr in the early ‘60s and it struck me that this movement has kind of always been a nonsensical ideology wrapped in faux intellectualism...and now without the intellectualism it is truly revealed for what it is.
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Oh, we've jettisoned the intellectualism, that's for sure. There is literally no coherent philosophy or idea coming from Trump, and the GOP is 100% ok with that. Even his denouncers like Flake, etc still vote for his policies.
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Now, they are a combo of the John Birch Society and the Confederacy.
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What does the GOP represent at this point? The free-market, libertarian, beacon of democracy strain seems dead. Is it just now the anti-intellectual, racist, populism of Trump? It is hard to see how it survives if Trump is fingered by Mueller
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The tail is wagging the dog and the tail is mouth-breathing, racist trogolodytes.
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