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you can have cult of personality-based authoritarian consolidation or you can blow up the economy and make everyone’s lives noticeably worse but it’s difficult to see how you manage both
things will probably go to shit, but i suspect that Trumpist consolidation will not work primarily because almost every successful regime consolidation we've seen involves buying off the middle class
To continue the point more serious dictators like Hitler and Stalin, or even Mussolini, had coherent and reasonably realistic plans to achieve economic progress. Trump
has tariffs to address problems he doesn’t understand, and vague ideas about tax and migration. There’s no serious thinking.
has tariffs to address problems he doesn’t understand, and vague ideas about tax and migration. There’s no serious thinking.
April 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
you can have cult of personality-based authoritarian consolidation or you can blow up the economy and make everyone’s lives noticeably worse but it’s difficult to see how you manage both
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they should invent unprecedented times that are good
January 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
they should invent unprecedented times that are good
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I have weighed in on this question of the Government needing a Growth Theory - with a passing swipe at single issue fanatics as I go.
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The Government needs its growth *explanation*
In Downing Street, I was once lobbied to support a £200m per annum cut to beer duty, because it was “the best growth policy I could ask for”. You see, that £200m would go into drinkers&…
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January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have weighed in on this question of the Government needing a Growth Theory - with a passing swipe at single issue fanatics as I go.
freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/t...
freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/t...
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fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.