Can you summarize?
Basically, he’s contemptuous that he can’t play God with the lives of those that he thinks he’s above.
He wants the ability to shift lives around on a global level like chess pieces. International libertarianism is simply a means to keep people from complaining about what is done to them because they are always replaceable with new people.
Sure. Newsweek requires us to post excerpts only.
Posen said no one cared when the recessions hurt black people.
Manufacturing is designed to keep low-educated whites outside the cities to concentrate their political power, and that manufacturing increases the political power of the working stiffs. (That’s a bad thing).
Therefore, we should not as a nation help manufacturing to recover from the recession.
The author doesn’t agree with Posen.
Excerpted:
"The fact that manufacturing jobs in the country have been declining should be at the front of everyone's minds. The fact that major corporations have exported a large amount of their manufacturing to China and displaced Americans from those jobs is something that is having a profound effect on many of my fellow blue collar workers who I have spoken to. Many towns that had manufacturing jobs outsourced to China or Mexico are now a shadow of their former selves, and many of those towns struggle with record levels of drugs and poverty among those who have been left behind.
It turns out that when the jobs leave and people lose their livelihoods, they tend to lose their sense of meaning. Despair sets in and down the rabbit hole of addiction many people go. Men without a college degree are leading the nation in deaths of despair, but elites like Posen only see "powerful positions"!
Summary:
Posen admitted that manufacturing provides people (mainly white people) without a college degree with good jobs, which in turn provide them with political power. That’s not good for the elite and powerful in the cities. Thus, the U.S. had to get rid of the manufacturing jobs and do not want to bring them back.
I think that’s about it.