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   burch cassidy to All   
   Re: Trump is the most progressive and ec   
   04 Oct 25 10:02:51   
   
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   From: bcassidy@ucla.edu   
      
   On 03 Oct 2025, Rudy Canoza  posted some   
   news:6AXDQ.124218$Jgh9.45989@fx15.iad:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > But economist George Selgin’s latest book refutes progressives’   
   > triumphalist nostalgia for the New Deal. It thereby demonstrates that   
   > “national conservatives” are oblivious regarding the cautionary   
   > lessons of Franklin Roosevelt’s experience.   
      
   You flunked economics, remember?   
      
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