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As if to put an exclamation point to the crazy story of the week about the Trump national security team adding a hostile journalist to their Signal group chat about bombing Houthi and the Blowups, Steve accidentally texted the Zoom link to this week's taping to John Eastman (who was otherwise pre-occupied).
In any case, after reviewing the completely out of whack signal-to-noise ratio of Signalgate, and the latest machinations in the lawfare against Trump, we take up as our main subject the question of whether the burst of enthusiasm among a few liberal thinkers to build stuff again—like liberalism used to in the New Deal—has much prospect of success. As Steve notes, Ezra Klein has called for "supply-side progressivism," but notes that the newfangled "abundance liberals" don't have a napkin or a curve, and if you don't have a napkin or a curve, it's just sparkling neoliberalism. Needless to say, John is mostly oblivious, and Lucretia is unimpressed. But maybe the movement can start with making their own blue hats, "Make Liberalism Great Again!" Of course, the acronym this generates sounds like a mumble, but isn't another mumble a perfect fit for Democrats right now?
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I'll have to admit to being a lurking economist. Therefore, a utilitarian by training, but I might be willing to be persuaded of its limits.
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As others have pointed out if the Signal flap had reversed parties the story would be ‘Republicans pounce.’
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I was waiting for the context of the comment, “Are you Lucretia?” Is it too revealing?
My father in the late 1970s was working on wind power. There was discussion of a federal grant to study the issue. Dad said that he could build turbines for that amount of money. But it’s safer to study a problem rather than build something. If it fails there will be negative publicity which a study will not get.
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Back in my BigLaw days, I worked in the DC office of Cleveland-based Jones Day for five years. The managing partner at the time was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame. As a white heterosexual Christian male, I was still lowest on the totem pole. They didn't like me even though I kept my mouth shut and billed 2100+ hours/year to their incomprehensibly rich institutional clients.
Jones Day might be as rightward as you'll find in BigLaw, but they're no more to the right than is any corporation with an HR department. HR is dominated by women and homos, who believe that meritocracy is unfair and is therefore to be avoided. Feelings matter.
We live in an HR world.