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   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Rudy Canoza wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > Donald Trump is leading the most economically interventionist U.S.   
   > administration since FDR’s.   
   >   
   > George F. Will   
   >   
   > October 3, 2025 at 6:45 a.m. EDTToday at 6:45 a.m. EDT   
   >   
   > Progressives’ retrospective aspiration for a new New Deal is   
   > shared by “national conservatives.” They, enthusiastic about the   
   > current administration, also believe government should   
   > comprehensively intervene in the economy, politically allocating   
   > capital (and therefore opportunity) to improve on the   
   > rationality of free markets.   
      
   :-D   
      
   I think George is really reaching here.   
      
   > Lessons are, however, forgotten. Donald Trump’s administration,   
   > ardently admired by “national conservatives,” is the most   
   > economically interventionist administration — by this important   
   > metric, it is the most progressive administration — since the   
   > New Deal.   
      
   Wtf does he mean "progressive"? Some technical definition?   
      
   > The administration reportedly might give farmers, especially soybean growers,   
   > billions to replace the billions they are losing because — who could have   
   > anticipated this? — other nations, particularly China, have imposed   
   retaliatory   
   > tariffs in response to Trump’s protectionist spasms. Having    
   emi-nationalized   
   > U.S. Steel, the administration has forbidden, surely for political reasons,   
   the   
   > closure of an Illinois plant that the company thinks it would be economically   
   > rational to close. Such systemic inefficiencies multiply,   
   > draining dynamism from the economy. But progressives and   
   > “national conservatives” should purr contentedly: A new New Deal   
   > is here.   
      
   Progressive?   
      
   > History has been called an early warning system. Selgin’s history warns   
   us. So   
   > does this truism: What we learn from history is that we do not learn from   
   history.   
   >   
   > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/03/trump-roose   
   elt-new-deal-depression/   
   >   
   > Trump is a fucking idiot.   
      
   Perhaps George is entering his dotage.   
      
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