Saturday 26 November 2022

"Republicans today stand for nothing, and on the rare occasions that they do stand for something, that something is woeful."


"The Republican Party has a problem that runs deeper than Trump (though it may have gotten much worse under Trump). It's this: Republicans today stand for nothing, and on the rare occasions that they do stand for something, that something is woeful. From protectionism to vile anti-immigration rhetoric, from government-engineered paid leave to the extended child tax credit, and from threatening to punish big tech and to impose industrial policy, with a contingent shouting 'free-markets are actually bad,' the party is in disarray intellectually -- a fact that plausibly contributes to its current disarray politically."
~ Veronique de Rugy, from her post 'Who Will Carry the Classical Liberals'

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