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Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT
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There are plenty of reasonable critiques of the @TuckerCarlson manifesto but none of them add up to a defense of the rusted upper-bracket-tax-cuts-forever junk that passes for an establishment-GOP agenda.
"Don't infantilize the white working class, they aren't just victims, public policy has limits, the breakdown of the family doesn't have a political solution ... and now please clap for a tax bill that only seems to benefit our donor class, because Freedom."
"Giving parents more money probably won't reverse the decline of the two-parent family and payday lenders fill a sad but necessary niche ... now please clap for massive stock buybacks, haven't you ever read Adam Smith?"
"Declining life expectancy is a choice, but taxing capital gains at a lower rate than wage income was a law given to Moses on Mount Sinai."
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