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I agree with a lot in Ross Douthat's column, but I think he misses a few points. Trump doesn't choose hacks merely because of laziness; anyone serious would be a threat, because he might take a stand on principle 1/ nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opi…
Also, it's not quite right to say that the GOP's mindset is stuck in 1979. It's actually stuck in the myth of what happened in the 1970s, whose history has been rewritten to make it seem much worse than it really was 2/ krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/sla…
And the role the mythical 70s still plays in economic debate is remarkable. In reality, the 80s offered a huge refutation of a lot of conservative doctrine – but nobody wanted to hear it 3/ krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/tha…
And of course the 2008 financial crisis should have been an object lesson. Yet people still invoke the (much less severe) horrors of the 70s – basically, I think, because they can be squeezed into a right-wing narrative 4/
