How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
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Well, I was an econ major... (Now I’m a chaplain/minister; it’s a long story.)
If I remember correctly, the free market tends to match supply and demand naturally at the point of maximum utility, meaning the maximum good... value... stuff that people get from the transaction. In theory, completely free trade is best for everyone.
But that’s assuming that all else is equal. In regards to national trade... it’s not equal. The other side is manipulating as much as they can to get as much as they can for themselves.
Why aren’t we doing the same? If it’s a level playing field, let the free market go. If it’s not, then force it back to level.