Chase wants to completely get rid of all tariffs, so, I mean, some of his policies aren’t the greatest
He makes a compelling argument against tariffs as public policy. But he’s still a business-first libertarian, which means his views on environmental regulation and labor rights and various federal public services also suck.
Guns? Great. Drugs? Great. Crime and punishment? Great.
Eh. I wish his immigration policy was as laisse-faire as his guns and drugs policy.
But most of his power and economics policies would completely dog-fuck the US economy
Our economy was dog-fucked ages ago, when we deindustrialized the midwest and plowed endless subsidies into FIRE and Tech sectors. Now we’ve got a bunch of computers churning out trillion dollar digital nothings, while investment cash flows like a waterfall into finance, insurance, and real estate, but our actual industrial capacity remains in a vestigial state.
We can’t even make enough new silicon chips to feed our antiquated ICE engine automotive industry.
I don’t think Oliver really has a path out of that mess, but its hardly his fault we got here.
He makes a compelling argument against tariffs as public policy. But he’s still a business-first libertarian, which means his views on environmental regulation and labor rights and various federal public services also suck.
Eh. I wish his immigration policy was as laisse-faire as his guns and drugs policy.
Our economy was dog-fucked ages ago, when we deindustrialized the midwest and plowed endless subsidies into FIRE and Tech sectors. Now we’ve got a bunch of computers churning out trillion dollar digital nothings, while investment cash flows like a waterfall into finance, insurance, and real estate, but our actual industrial capacity remains in a vestigial state.
We can’t even make enough new silicon chips to feed our antiquated ICE engine automotive industry.
I don’t think Oliver really has a path out of that mess, but its hardly his fault we got here.
I mean, yeah, I agree on pretty much all counts. But, you know, typically you renovate a shitty house instead of punching holes in the walls.
Very hard to get rid of all the rotten drywall if you’re not willing to swing the hammer