There is more value added about the 2016 election in this one Lee Drutman Vox article than in everything published by the WaPo and the NYT national news staffs so far this year!…Populism is rising with Trump and Sanders benefiting.
Grasping Reality
Must-Must-Must Read: Lee Drutman at Vox on the Shape of the Electorate
Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley
Populist Platform of 1892: We "demand the further restriction of undesirable emigration." Also, fiat money, public banking, nationalization of monopolistic industries, progressive taxation, shorter working hours, eliminate the police state, ballot initiatives and referendums, and end subsidies to corporations.
ReplyDeleteBrad had his boxers in a twist today over the fact that the New York Times dared to report on some people who weren't happy in Jeff Bezos's capitalist utopia.
ReplyDelete"... ballot initiatives and referendums, and end subsidies to corporations."
ReplyDeleteAnd bad frozen pizza. We're not kidding this time.