Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE:

CHANGE.

LOL:

ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK UP KRUGMAN’S WRITINGS ON TRADE FROM THE 1980S YOU CAN DO KRUGMAN VS. KRUGMAN: Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs. Krugman was pretty protectionist by comparison with many mainstream economists then, which won him the admiration of a whole school of anti-deindustrialization “industrial policy” Democrats who espoused policies that looked somewhat Trumpian. But that makes sense, when you remember that Trump is more or less a 1970s Rust Belt Democrat.

THEY’VE BEEN ROBBING AMERICA BLIND FOR DECADES:

MARK JUDGE: The Stasi Left. “Nazi metaphors have become far too overused. To the Left, everything to the right of Chairman Mao Zedong is fascism. Such overuse of Nazi imagery is disrespectful to the unique evil of the Holocaust. It should stop. Still, a more modern and exact analogy can be applied to the modern American Left. It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a compelling new book, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance, scholar Alison Lewis reveals that while dictators such as Hitler or Stalin sought to crush writers and other artists because they feared the freedom they represented, the German Stasi saw them as allies. While the Nazis and their counterparts, the Stalinists, attacked a wide range of artists as ‘degenerate,’ the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers. The German communists had their own versions of people like Michael Moore, Stephen Colbert, the publishing industry, and Hollywood — useful idiots who echo whatever the leaders of the party tell them.”

We have Kimmel, Colbert, etc.

I’M NOW SKEPTICAL ABOUT IT ALL: