It's the ingratitude! Don't those deplorables - Trumpists, Brexiteers, white nationalists, yellow vests - don't they understand that everything they take for granted today - labor laws, old age pensions, education, health care, safety, clean air and water - were given to them by the activism and the peaceful protests of the progressives?
There has to be a conspiracy! At the highest levels of government! No wait, our guys are at the highest levels of government, so the conspiracy has to be, well, something or other, so let's sic Robert Mueller on the contemptible fiends that are colluding to overturn our enlightened and ethical rule!
Now, here's a splendid book just out, reviewed here, about The Unmasking of the Administrative State by John Marini of the University of Nevada and the Claremont Institute.
First, to retell the history of American political ideas in the 20th century, in order to offer an alternative to the institutional progressive consensus.
Second, to show the practical problems of the progressives' administrative state and then make the theoretical case against it.
The current populist movement is not really opposed to the progressives' administrative state as such.
On the one hand we have the thesis of the progressive administrative swampies with their mindless gotta-be-a-victim-in-here-somewhere ideology; on the other hand, we have the antithesis of the conservative/libertarian intellectuals that have been roto-rooting socialism and the administrative state to little effect for the last century.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/after_mueller_now_back_to_the_culture_war.html
There has to be a conspiracy! At the highest levels of government! No wait, our guys are at the highest levels of government, so the conspiracy has to be, well, something or other, so let's sic Robert Mueller on the contemptible fiends that are colluding to overturn our enlightened and ethical rule!
Now, here's a splendid book just out, reviewed here, about The Unmasking of the Administrative State by John Marini of the University of Nevada and the Claremont Institute.
First, to retell the history of American political ideas in the 20th century, in order to offer an alternative to the institutional progressive consensus.
Second, to show the practical problems of the progressives' administrative state and then make the theoretical case against it.
The current populist movement is not really opposed to the progressives' administrative state as such.
On the one hand we have the thesis of the progressive administrative swampies with their mindless gotta-be-a-victim-in-here-somewhere ideology; on the other hand, we have the antithesis of the conservative/libertarian intellectuals that have been roto-rooting socialism and the administrative state to little effect for the last century.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/after_mueller_now_back_to_the_culture_war.html
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