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The econ fight inside the Right

The New Bazaar

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Are You Surprised by the Fact That It Worked?

After the great recession and how slow the recovery had been, there was generally a loss of faith in freemarket economics. And so i knew that people were getting more and more pushed back in the republican party for a view that could be described as just completely pro marketor having, you know, a magical faith in markets. I think it was shocking just how like, overpowering the trump message was. Even within this populous part of the right, even within the trumpian lis part, the word socialist and the word communist get used all the time to describe democrats. It's interesting that there's both a pulling away from market orientat economics, and also that they're using

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