By Lambert Strether in Corel.
Thomas Frank’s Wrecking Crew was published in 2008. It covers the ideology and practice of Post-Powell Memo’s conservatism. It was. Liberals of 2016! I only rode Frank Rain, so I didn’t read it until I got the bright idea to write this post.
The reviews at the time were favorable, but they didn’t add much value to the book itself. They both caught my eye. The first is from an interview with Frank by PBS great Bill Moyers. In it, Frank puts a paper on his postcard destroying the crew:
A severe page is required to explain the “fantastic misfinding.” Distill the essence of a bumper sticker or t-shirt.
[FRANK:] Bad governments are the natural product of control by people who believe that the government is bad.
Or: Cynicism creates corruption and sarcasm.
Or: Reclaim the regulator before the system self-destructs.
(Moyer should say that “rivets” are fair and not “coruscating” and “corrossing.” Does Frank really say that? Michael Lind resonates with warnings Note:
What “wrecking crew” lacks is to acknowledge what should be seen from the left perspective, from the left perspective. From privatization of social security to private school vouchers, it is anti-government debt in most major policy wars. The Social Security plan was so apoplar, that Yuki voted in the Republican Congress. Since the creation of Medicare. Even if they controlled all three branches, their rights are limited to tinkering with it, as they were unable to overthrow a massive government.
Certainly, the defeat of an attempted libertarian revolution might argue that Frank’s villain’s gold-making plan would be taken in a different view. A former young conservative fire truck… They were unable to abolish the new contract, so they settled on enriching themselves in poverty.
Beware of tail stab wounds:
But “wrecking crew” is a controversy, not a paper.
The wrong hicotomy. Frank has a history doctor at the University of Chicago, and despite being directed towards a popular audience, he is a great example of Historian’s craft. But as for Lind’s “good news,” as Adam Smith stated, “there is a great ruin in the country,” all the agencies that Lind listed were gradually withering under conservative assault. Masu.
The “review” in the headline is a bit of a misnomer. Frank writes about the history of that period, but my purpose here is not to refrain from Hiss or to tweak his timeline. Rather, I present a series of excerpts from the warning crew, which, like my wont, are at the highest point – and compare them to the current evess of the Trump 2.0 administration. I’m sure you’ll be concerned about all sorts of familiar things! My purpose is to show, as the headline says, “We’ve been here before.”
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Epigraph, Page VI:
Family sounds? This is a gish gallop of Trump. For example, on the first day, there were no 100 enforcement orders, but in 1933 it was designated to create a sense of “fighting.”
Page 93:
There’s little argument here, and the Doge throwing a mag under a bus on h1b in the first few days of the Trump administration is a perfect example. (There are lots of Maga Base and Imnsho
Page 41:
Obviously, Doge is a “Wrecking Crew” operation (although it may have more abilities and panache than Delay’s day). But Republicans on the “Contract with America” may remind us that Maga and Doge, who looked as invincible as they do today, fell into a (ideologically led) government shutdown. (I don’t praise Clinton. Here I say that months are a long time in politics.)
Page 66. Below, Frank labels conservative self-awareness as an “outsider.”
Just read X’s posts from Trump and Kuji’s supporters and make sure that the trough is now true. I, in what way – well, I can think of some, but you know what I mean – is billionaire Peter Thiel “outsider”? That’s how it lined up with local gentlemen like car dealers.
70 pages. In addition to “hostile fantasy,” we have Preservatatas.
Today, “conservatism as an industry” takes the massive form of Elon Musk’s X, in addition to the usual entities. There, Mash simultaneously makes a civil order servant, co-chairman of his parts (subtim intervening in public policy issues that directly benefit them, such as SpaceX as a brand, as Starlink).
Page 115, “Personality Policy”:
Musk explicitly states that one effect of “forks on the road” email is to drive workers out of the government into the more productive private sector, the same argument that Reagan and Blackwell made. urged. And Doge then takes control of the HR Administration and adopts the Raininist paradigm, as proposed by Blackwell, by setting it up in a party structure similar to the government.
Page 117, Enhanced points above:
Page 138:
oeo = usaid, and anything else that Doge gets (defense and spook are exempt so far).
Page 221:
“The end captures the nation and destroys liberalism using it is a practical alternative,” SEMS was to summarise Trump’s executive order in one sentence.
Page 223:
Of course, Trump and Musk attack Social Security. The profits aren’t too great. But that doesn’t mean they will succeed.
Page 244:
The book ended in 2008, and after a massive financial crash, conservative dreams collapse. Frank writes: “It’s a job to restore civilization again.” [conservatives] It was left for the rest of us. “And we chose Obama to do that. So it goes.
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The purpose of this surface is to sing the canter through my history of conservatism, not my extracts – again to remind me that “we were here before.” Readers who didn’t blog between 2003 and 2006 may find Trump doing something new or innovative. But as Reading Frank shows, there are neither events about Trumpism (at least because of domestic policy). It’s hindering it to me for me. SOM may find a re-warranty.
Reading the detailed retelling of Frank’s scandal and battle makes me sem the difference between Prerereis Musk) government; (2) Iron Quality of Doge (Administrative Orders, OPM and Treasury Payment Services Capture and shooting of Bolsheviquits); (3) general who scolded laws and precedents (as if the entire Nixon administration was run by Howard Phillips), and “it’s better to seek forgiveness than permits.” Administration attitude. Each characteristic opens the possibility of a signer’s pushback, especially for administrations running at thin margins everywhere (House, Senate, Voting).
I characterize Trumpism as a response, as I actually do (such as DEI, police, PMC hegemony, and generally, many clearly non-magic armies in the past Reward for the destruction of the rust belt made by justice). To me, the value of Trumpism is the response to that response. Democrat leadership has responded so far as if all they have to do is wait for unni’s ascendancedant. ”). Maybe they can run winner Kamara again again.
The reaction by Democratic leaders to Trump’s 34 days seemed impermeable to PMC loyalists as well. Madison, not to mention rusty karma, it’s their capital, their economy, their society, their symbolic). Whether Esmand is currently creating space for new leadership is an open question (although there is no doubt that Democrats will need new leadership to apeaterly and download that download to the precinct level). Of course, Oher’s reaction may occur: the formation of a 1854 Republican-like work (hypothesis?) general strike from 2028 until early date. The future lies ahead!
