The expert class embraced the failed "zero covid" plan early, claiming that covid would be eradicated if only we "lock down harder." This later morphed into "covid will be eradicated with more vaccines."
Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop look at the success of the Jeffersonians following the corruption of Hamilton's Federalist Party.
During the 1920s, the emerging individualists and libertarians — the Menckens, the Nocks, etc. — were generally considered Men of the Left. This all changed with the New Deal.
The Washington class could miscalculate and use force against the "deplorables." And if it reaches that point, the veneer of democratic legitimacy will be erased.
Since discrimination in any form is not aggression, force, coercion, violence, or threat, it should never be considered a crime.
Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop tackle Alexander Hamilton and his mercantilist regime.
Genuine change will likely come only through muddling through at the state and local level. That kind of work will be instrumental in the creation of decentralized alternatives to our present political order.
Nobody is a better sociologist of American conservatism than Dr. Gottfried, and nobody is more compelling and erudite when it comes explaining how the Right went so horribly wrong.
In Episode 2 of the Liberty vs. Power Podcast, Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop discuss the lasting tension between the Spirit of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787.
