The Siren Call of Right-Wing Progressivism

Connor O'Keeffe Cornerstone University 2025

12/09/2025 Connor O'Keeffe

Connor O’Keeffe explains why the New Right’s economic populists have adopted a progressive myth of “laissez-faire gone wrong,” and instead shows how a century of inflation, bailouts, regulation, and managed trade has rigged the system against younger Americans.

Recorded at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on November 1, 2025.

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