Nearly 40 years ago, Milton Friedman warned of the “invisible political hand,” that elevated special interests over the common good.
Tucker essentially said the same thing last week - and some anti-Trump conservatives are blasting him for it: amgreatness.com/2019/01/07/car…
Tucker essentially said the same thing last week - and some anti-Trump conservatives are blasting him for it: amgreatness.com/2019/01/07/car…
“The invisible political hand is not the baker and the butcher and the brewer, but rather the banker and the bureaucrat and the Bloombergs. As we’ve seen in just one highly publicized case, when the baker defies the bureaucrat—to say nothing of the Bloombergs—who suffers most?”
“Do French, DeSanctis, Shapiro or anyone else on the Right truly think that this country now functions under a free-wheeling market-based economy? Or is it, rather, a managed one? And if the answer is that it is a managed one, who are the managers and who are the subordinates?”
Tucker - like Reagan and many conservative leaders, past and present - questioned why, in a time of prosperity, are Americans unhappy? Conservatives have long argued that the economy isn’t the only measure of a good, decent nation. But Tucker says it and suddenly it’s blasphemy.
